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comment by pseydtonne
pseydtonne  ·  3308 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Tried VR Porn, And It Was Weird

This is one of the best breakdowns I've ever read about what VR can and cannot yet do. This part:

    My body was so confused by the lack of heat—no warm breath on the nape of my neck, not even a single heartbeat—that I felt it as a phantom sensation. I realized that I didn't feel like I was with another person so much as I was being "stroked" by the intangible ghost hand of some eerie automaton, a one-size-fits-all skeleton wearing intimacy's skin...

I've tried VR a couple times, but only once with something where I felt inside it enough to hit an uncanny valley moment. You get enough sensory data that realize you expect more. Chasing that dragon, man...