One is sinister and gives pearl clutchers new talking points. The other describes what should be a basic aspect of owning a computer.
Numerous American companies recognize this and are developing services and products tailored to your needs. The comment just above yours highlighted some of these companies.
However, Apple may not be the best-suited company to take action in this regard.
How is that not a dichotomy, and (possibly) hypocritical?
We as a culture have a weird relationship with horny, and it’s mostly a negative one. Sexuality is fine. Horny is not.
But I also don't know why you think the Vision Pro can't play videos or go to websites. It can do that stuff.
(Actually, I'm informed by a VR porn enthusiast that it doesn't support some stereo video formats. I guess you have to stick to 2D.)
I think this is largely driven by the concern that the model could be used to (whether intentionally or inadvertently) generate an image of a person who looks underage. That's a gray area of law (not to mention morality) that people are very hesitant to test, so it's better to just block porn entirely.
The really obvious MR sex app is one that overwrites your partner with somebody else like Strea or Bremington. Not sure if most partners would like that. You might get something that feels like motion sickness if there is too much of a difference in breast size.
I’m glad to see this sentiment expressed here. I have grown increasingly frustrated with this very thing over the past few years. Anything which even approaches, erotic or titillating is immediately suppressed, censored, and pretended like it never existed in the first place. Apple is one of the worst here, but far away not the only one. All of the AI companies are exactly the same: try and generate an image of a woman and a bathing suit with DALL-E and you will inevitably fail.
Instead, they pretend over and over that these are simply productivity devices, meant to enhance our capabilities as workers or consumers of Disney-level entertainment.
I am a human being, who occasionally gets horny. I masturbate. This is not something that corporate America recognizes, and in fact, seems eager to censor and suppress.
A world curated by conservative HR departments is not one that is particularly appealing to me, and the Vision Pro seems like it is the month of this attitude.