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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by bushbaba on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:21AM (#36257437)
Media technology has seen past innovation on by the porn industry. A major VR selling point is entertainment. I say this less as gushing about omg porn. But more that immersion VR video at a human to human perspective changes video entirely. It feels more human. Feels like you aren’t looking at a celeb but a real human being. This will change the way we do TV, Social Media, and a Movies.

https://www.thrillist.com/vice/how-porn-influenced-technolog...

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by mrguyorama on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:21PM (#36260154)
People keep parroting this "porn pushes tech" line, but what important algorithm or tech advancements have come out of mindgeek the past twenty years?

The oft repeated "VHS won because Beta didn't have porn" is flat out wrong, you could rent porn on Beta back in the day.

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