{"id":1028078,"date":"2024-03-15T02:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/metas-vr-headsets-are-getting-a-masturbation-mode-futurism.php"},"modified":"2024-03-15T02:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T06:33:48","slug":"metas-vr-headsets-are-getting-a-masturbation-mode-futurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/metas-vr-headsets-are-getting-a-masturbation-mode-futurism.php","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode &#8211; Futurism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\"It's for porn right?\"        And More    <\/p>\n<p>    Shortly after the Apple Vision Pro's     January release, many buyers were     horrified to discover that their wildly expensive new    headsets didn't let them download and watch porn. (This isn't    all too surprising, given Apple's     generally porn-avoidant history. Still,     as 404 Media reported, buyers were pissed.)  <\/p>\n<p>    Enter: Meta, which knows what the people buying its VR headgear    really want.  <\/p>\n<p>    Meta     announced last week that its latest software update, v63,    would let users of its Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets more    comfortably wear their devices while lying down. In a press    release, the company noted that \"there are myriad reasons you    might want to use your Meta Quest headset lying down,\"    explaining that users might want to lay back while watching a    made-for-VR David Attenborough series on the Galapagos Islands,    attending     bizarre metaverse concerts in Horizon Worlds, meditating,    \"and more.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Don't play, Meta... we know what \"and more\" means. VR porn    enthusiasts have been     hankering for a better lying down mode for a while, and it    seems that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse team has answered    the call. Get cozy and freak on, y'all.  <\/p>\n<p>    There isone catch to the update, though: lying    down mode isn't yet available on the Quest 3, Meta's most    advanced consumer-oriented headset to date.  <\/p>\n<p>    But Meta does have a reason for this seeming discrepancy.    Inan     Ask Me Anything on Instagram this week, the company's chief    technology officer and Reality Labs head Andrew \"Boz\" Bosworth    addressed the user concern, explaining that Meta is indeed    \"planning to bring\" the horizontal upgrade to the newer headset    but has run into some slow-downs due to the Quest 3's differing    \"Smart    Guardian\" interface. (Put very simply, Meta's Guardian    systems allow users to draw VR boundaries in their real-world    space.)  <\/p>\n<p>    \"I don't have a date for you exactly,\" Bosworth continued. \"But    it is coming, and we're making good progress on it.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Of course, masturbation isn't the only reason why a Quest user    might want to be able to more functionally lay back while    wearing their headset. It's also certainly worth noting that    the Instagram user who asked Bosworth about the update during    his AMAexplained that it would make their Quest 3    experience as a disabled person far more comfortable  an    important accessibility consideration for Meta, which     urges its \"commitment to inclusive design\" in its Quest    documentation.  <\/p>\n<p>    That said, some netizens' minds seem pretty fixated on the \"and    more\" of it all.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"It's for porn,\" one Redditor wrote in response to the above    AMA snippet,     shared yesterday to a thread in the r\/OculusQuest    subreddit, \"right?\"  <\/p>\n<p>    More on VR porn:     Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Cant Play VR    Porn  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/metas-vr-headsets-masturbation-mode\" title=\"Meta's VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode - Futurism\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta's VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode - Futurism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \"It's for porn right?\" And More Shortly after the Apple Vision Pro's January release, many buyers were horrified to discover that their wildly expensive new headsets didn't let them download and watch porn. (This isn't all too surprising, given Apple's generally porn-avoidant history. Still, as 404 Media reported, buyers were pissed.) Enter: Meta, which knows what the people buying its VR headgear really want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/metas-vr-headsets-are-getting-a-masturbation-mode-futurism.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}