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I think we'll still need to wait a few years for the next huge technology jump in porn, Virtual Reality.
How can porn be offered? a) images or b) real interaction.
a) Images: it can be either pics or videos. Technology has improved really fast to the point of being able to offer streamed HD videos at affordable costs (hosting). What else can you add to it? more resolution? pointless, HD is more than enough. I think we have peaked on the visual technology part. Tubes will be here for a long time.
b) Real interaction: it can mean more interaction with what you see in the videos, to feel part of it, and here we are talking about Virtual reality.
AEBN tried it with that idea about the pussy you can connect by USB and that moves synced with the videos. It was a good idea, but imho not the business model they tried to use, to pay big bucks for hardware and then also pay for a subscription. If you can cover the initial costs, the better model would be what mobile phone companies use, to offer the hardware for free or really cheap but after signing an X months membership or contract like when you join mobile phone companies.
3D could also be the next thing and technology is already there (still very basic), it fits porn perfectly.
The future could be a mix of 3D with a pussy or some kind of VR glasses or even something more advanced that is closer to Real Virtuality still to be invented, that even allows you to listen, watch, smell and touch.
The other way of interaction is social networking, but as Fabian said, i don't see an FB clone that big in porn. Maybe a social community that also acts as a hub for dating, dirty talking & flirting/showing off and 1 on 1 virtual sex through webcams could work, but have on mind that still a huge % of the users are men, so you could face the problem of most of dating programs, that have way more men that women and need to use fake female users to keep the men fooled to renew. The problem is that you can fake emails and profiles, but not 1 on 1 virtual sex.
Also one of the big points of FB is that it created trust based on the removal of the usual internet anonymity, people there have real names and surnames and i don't see it working for porn.
Porn or virtual sex is not remotely socially accepted enough to be something that most of users would want to share in public or to take risks without anonymity. What if you discover some known people in the porn social network? or even worse, you end doing 1 on 1 virtual sex with some random that ends being your neighbor? your boss/employee?? your wife??? your daughter?????? As Fabian said, it would work better for swingers.
I guess manwin is also waiting like most of us, and maybe even working on that next idea, but in the mean time, they just want to get control over as much traffic as possible, so when that next idea is developed, they just need to push it to their traffic. you can't say it is a bad business model for this waiting period. I admire what they are doing (except the usage of copyrighted content but we have enough threads about it with Paul M so we better don't start another discussion here about that).
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