38: Ela Darling: Virtual Reality

It's all well and good to play a video game or go on a tour of the ocean floor with a virtual reality headset: but if you're jerking off, you need that shit to seem really, really real! Ela Darling is here to make that happen: she's the world's first VR cam girl. Ela and her pioneering company are working tirelessly to assure not only that VR cam models have presence and immersion for the viewer, but that this science-fiction-cum-science-fact industry creates new and sustainable revenue for model-entrepreneurs. Ela not only has a deep understanding of nerdy tech stuff, but intrinsic compassion for the sex workers who put the reality in virtual reality.DISCUSSED: The Uncanny Valley / Presence / Engagement / Immersion / Light Reflected Off Skin / Caligula-style Orgies / Would Artificially Intelligent Sex Workers Pass a Turing Test? / Dragons Fucking While Flying / Combating Loneliness / Inter-pupillary Distance / "Maybe They Get Off on Disappointment" / Teledildonics / The First Martian Ejaculation / Shoot... <