Ever thought how it would be like to experience sex as the opposite gender? This is a question raised by the 12 year old movie Minority Report, when Tom Cruise's character goes to the hacker to extract a vision from the precog. The hacker mentions that one of his best-selling experiences is enjoying sex from the opposite gender. A first step of this can now be true if both of you are using the Google Glass, as a new app released called Glance lets you record your intimate activities and even allows to stream video from the other device so you see what you partner is seeing at the moment.
How did we get this far? After the initial device introduction to the intimate life of vibrators, dildos, beads and other sex toys, some even found their way into condoms, with vibrating rings and the sorts. A few pictures, cameras, recorders and the internet made a lot of them public and out for the world to see. The AR part of it started with the Kiss Phone, a phone with lips that could let you experience the kiss being sent by determining the temperature, pressure, speed and sucking force applied to one end and reproducing it on the other. Just like a phone, but sending a kiss instead of voice.
That looked really cool for couples suffering from long distance relationships or the sort, but now we are getting ready to include all other sort of devices to "improve" our carnal interactions, one of the most intimate human encounters. And it won't be far until we ask ourselves how far are we from using the helmet from Demolition Man? Acting as if sex was all about a rational encounter when it is all about the passion and attraction that no scientist can explain?
Lenina Huxley rationalizes her proposal by saying "After having observed your behavior this evening and my resulting condition, em, I was wondering if you would like to have sex". John Spartan's enthusiasm is waned when he is handed the helmet, and more surprised when he gets the helmet off and is questioned why "they broke contact", to which he puzzled responds "I haven´t event touched you yet". His next proposal about doing it the old-fashioned way is answered with a clear "Eeeeeewww, disgusting! You mean....fluid transfer???"
In this way, we believe that so much introduction into this private area is really pulling couples apart, and setting a lot of pre-booting for an encounter to occur. Do you imagine being with your partner after a night out, start making out in the elevator home and once you reach your living room you are unable to copulate because you forgot to charge your Google Glasses? Do we now have to start saying we got "battery-blocked?". Or if you picked up someone at a nightclub and later cannot consummate because you have Google Glass and she has Apple Glass which are not compatible?
As a bonus, we will talk a bit about the porn side of the issue and how it is evolving in parallel. Remember our Ikea shopping post from a couple of days ago? Now you can use the same technology on Playboy's Netherlands edition, and once you scroll over the images with your camera, the pictures turn to life and start performing for you. All you need is a smartphone and the Layar app to turn a static printed magazine into a live video feed with additional content.
Now, how can you improve video footage using AR? Let's talk about the old and boring porn tapes that everyone has seen but no one publicly admits to doing so. We all now about the cheesy fake dialogues, porr settings and the lack of connection between the actors and the movie with the consumers on the other side of the screen. This can change as AR is incorporated in the equation. How you ask? Imagine you can immerse yourself into your desired scenario and with your desired partners doing whatever your mind can only imagine. No need to see actors "interacting" with actress as their directors want, you can become part of the movie and "interact" with the actress/actor/both in the way you want, with as many partners as you desire, in the setting you choose. What would that be like? And how much would you pay for it? Some companies are already working on this, like Pink Visual. Here is their presentation from the AVN's Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas
As you see, intimate life and porn have to very clear and separate paths. One is using AR to start including devices that could put distance between a couple, while the other is cutting the distance by placing the consumer inside the content and making him a part of it. So we need to ask ourselves, is this really the way we want to evolve? Is this path right, or did we missed something along the way? We have talked about how AR could ruin your dating life, and now we could argue it will ruin your personal encounters.
How did we get this far? After the initial device introduction to the intimate life of vibrators, dildos, beads and other sex toys, some even found their way into condoms, with vibrating rings and the sorts. A few pictures, cameras, recorders and the internet made a lot of them public and out for the world to see. The AR part of it started with the Kiss Phone, a phone with lips that could let you experience the kiss being sent by determining the temperature, pressure, speed and sucking force applied to one end and reproducing it on the other. Just like a phone, but sending a kiss instead of voice.
That looked really cool for couples suffering from long distance relationships or the sort, but now we are getting ready to include all other sort of devices to "improve" our carnal interactions, one of the most intimate human encounters. And it won't be far until we ask ourselves how far are we from using the helmet from Demolition Man? Acting as if sex was all about a rational encounter when it is all about the passion and attraction that no scientist can explain?
Lenina Huxley rationalizes her proposal by saying "After having observed your behavior this evening and my resulting condition, em, I was wondering if you would like to have sex". John Spartan's enthusiasm is waned when he is handed the helmet, and more surprised when he gets the helmet off and is questioned why "they broke contact", to which he puzzled responds "I haven´t event touched you yet". His next proposal about doing it the old-fashioned way is answered with a clear "Eeeeeewww, disgusting! You mean....fluid transfer???"
In this way, we believe that so much introduction into this private area is really pulling couples apart, and setting a lot of pre-booting for an encounter to occur. Do you imagine being with your partner after a night out, start making out in the elevator home and once you reach your living room you are unable to copulate because you forgot to charge your Google Glasses? Do we now have to start saying we got "battery-blocked?". Or if you picked up someone at a nightclub and later cannot consummate because you have Google Glass and she has Apple Glass which are not compatible?
As a bonus, we will talk a bit about the porn side of the issue and how it is evolving in parallel. Remember our Ikea shopping post from a couple of days ago? Now you can use the same technology on Playboy's Netherlands edition, and once you scroll over the images with your camera, the pictures turn to life and start performing for you. All you need is a smartphone and the Layar app to turn a static printed magazine into a live video feed with additional content.
Now, how can you improve video footage using AR? Let's talk about the old and boring porn tapes that everyone has seen but no one publicly admits to doing so. We all now about the cheesy fake dialogues, porr settings and the lack of connection between the actors and the movie with the consumers on the other side of the screen. This can change as AR is incorporated in the equation. How you ask? Imagine you can immerse yourself into your desired scenario and with your desired partners doing whatever your mind can only imagine. No need to see actors "interacting" with actress as their directors want, you can become part of the movie and "interact" with the actress/actor/both in the way you want, with as many partners as you desire, in the setting you choose. What would that be like? And how much would you pay for it? Some companies are already working on this, like Pink Visual. Here is their presentation from the AVN's Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas
As you see, intimate life and porn have to very clear and separate paths. One is using AR to start including devices that could put distance between a couple, while the other is cutting the distance by placing the consumer inside the content and making him a part of it. So we need to ask ourselves, is this really the way we want to evolve? Is this path right, or did we missed something along the way? We have talked about how AR could ruin your dating life, and now we could argue it will ruin your personal encounters.
