Oculus Won’t Block Virtual Reality Porn On Headsets

While demos of virtual reality headsets have thus far stuck to immersive games and interactive clips that let you experience things like flying over a city or race through a jungle, some people are thinking about how the tech could be employed for more intimate purposes. And the folks at Facebook-owned Oculus VR are just fine with that.

The Oculus Rift headset prototype helped kicked off the latest batch of VR headgear when it won Best of CES in 2014. The company was then snapped up by Facebook and its technology is already being used in headsets designed by others, like Samsung’s Gear VR. The consumer version of the Rift is expected to launch in the coming months.

Some big-money electronics companies actively shy away from supporting erotic content and applications, but Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is taking an a hands-off approach when it comes to X-rated uses of his company’s devices.

“The Rift is an open platform, we don’t control what software can run on it,” he explained during the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference on Monday, according to Variety. “And that’s a big deal.”

Variety notes that others on the same panel as Luckey were less willing to discuss the porn issue.

Nick DiCarlo, the Samsung VP in charge of its VR business, noted that Milk VR, the company’s storefront for VR content, “is being programmed as a major media outlet.”

So that’s probably a no on porn from Samsung. Of course, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to watch adult content on the Gear VR, but that it likely won’t be sold through Milk.

by Chris Morran via Consumerist