Posted April 07, 2016
cogadh: If porn gets behind VR, I may have to change my stance on getting ready for it. No, not because I want VR porn, but because every major new media format that has been a success was first adopted by porn.
Wishbone: The problem is that you can't really make VR porn any other way than by 3D animation, which is expensive as hell. "Normal" porn made with cameras will have to stick to one of two things, stereoscopic 3D or 6 DOF, but not both since that's impossible to do other than by 3D animation. I'm guessing it'll stick mostly to stereoscopic 3D, because 6 DOF only makes sense for porn if you place the camera in the middle of an orgy. Multiple cameras and a shed load of processing can capture the scene as a voxel movie.
The main issues are
Low resolution. Voxels in the test movies I've seen are big, a childs head fitted inside a 100x100x100 cube. Of course this is a current limitation and will rapidly improve.
File size. Are massive, and would grow exponentially with resolution.
Dark areas. Any where not caught by camera can't be presented.