LOS ANGELES — Let’s escort the elephant out of the room right away: Yes, you can watch all kinds of porn on Apple Vision Pro. Yes, right now. Yes, both 2D porn and 180-degree/200-degree immersive VR porn.
Those sensationalist mainstream headlines quoting a random Redditor about AVP being a “$3,500 chastity belt”? Misleading at best — and really utter BS, since a simple Google will show you how to enable the four little WebXR settings that let Safari and the device engage with existing VR content.
With that out of the way, let’s delve into the present and potential future of Apple Vision Pro when it comes to adult content.
Full disclosure: I’m not a tech or VR specialist. Instead, I represent an average target market for AVP — neither technophobe nor zealous booster. I am familiar and generally content with the Apple ecosystem and interfaces. I’m an early-ish adopter of new tech, usually within a year or so of release after prices adjust down to a working person’s budget. I’m not afraid to tinker a bit with software to find what I’m looking for, but I also don’t care to finely customize every device or app to get through technical hurdles.
So, let me walk you through how someone like me, and maybe like you, can access adult content on Apple Vision Pro in five easy steps.
Five Steps to Apple Vision Pro Porn
- Acquire the device — or if you work at XBIZ, get them to acquire it and loan it to you.
- Spend 30-45 minutes setting up your account, your avatar, teaching the device where your eyes and hands are, etc.
- Press the “digital crown” button on the goggles — the device looks remarkably like ski goggles — and your apps appear on virtual screens in front of you. At this point you immediately become aware of AVP’s most revolutionary innovation: Apple’s sleek take on “mixed reality.” MR keeps you immersed in the real world through a state-of-the-art, real-time video feed of whatever is around you, but simultaneously adds digital elements like a virtual transparent dashboard within which those apps pop up between you and whatever you’re looking at.
- OK, back to finding porn. Aim your eyes toward the Safari browser app — for now, Apple’s Safari is the only browser fully compatible with AVP — and then lightly tap your thumb and index finger together. This is the most common and useful haptics gesture of Apple Vision Pro, equivalent to a mouse or trackpad click. This is how you select things, close windows, etc. in the virtual screens on which most of the non-immersive actions of the experience take place.
- A browser window opens. Aim your eyes toward the URL bar and a virtual keyboard appears in front of you. Now it’s time to choose your own porn adventure. Just like on a laptop or phone, you can surf to your favorite paysite, whether 2D or VR, or just Google your favorite performer and hit the video tab — whatever floats your erotic boat.
And just like that, boom! Porn. Yes, actual porny porn on your Apple Vision Pro. Less than an hour after opening the box.
The 2D Porn Experience on Apple Vision Pro
Let’s start with the simplest way to watch adult content on Apple Vision Pro: via free tube sites like Pornhub, XVideos and xHamster.
As noted above, Apple Vision Pro’s Safari browser works exactly like Safari on your desktop, laptop or phone. As long as you don’t have any anti-porn filters installed — or live in one of the U.S. states that have passed impractical age verification laws, causing adult content platforms to geoblock them — you should be able to head over to your favorite adult tube site and pick any video from their selection. Again, you just look at it, lightly tap your thumb and index finger together, and you’re in.
A quick heads-up: Websites that feature advertising pop-ups on other devices also have them on Apple Vision Pro. This can get pretty annoying for a first-time user, but no more so than with other devices — and once you master the hand-eye coordination for select-click on AVP, quickly closing the virtual screens and tabs popping up before you will surely become second nature in your determined pursuit of finally pressing “play” on a video.
OK, you’ve blasted the pop-ups into oblivion and you’re finally there. You press “play.” The porn video starts.
Here’s where the source material becomes a factor. Adult videos come in a variety of resolutions and formats, from ultra-amateur phone recordings, to vintage VHS content, to the latest iteration of hi-def in 4K, 5K or however many Ks it takes to show every single pore and blemish. On your virtual screen browser, you’re going to see it in whatever definition it was recorded and/or uploaded. The contrast between the real world, which you can still see through AVP’s video feed, the Apple-sharp digital window of the browser and the embedded video, varying widely in resolution, can be jarring.
To avoid this distracting contrast, you can easily make the video full-frame. This leaves you with just your IRL background and one large digital screen in front of you, displaying the video. I suspect that this will become the preferred way to watch 2D adult content, for the following two reasons.
First, although it does not provide VR-level immersion or a fully “spatial” experience — more about spatial porn in the next section — you can make the video fairly large in your field of vision and bring it “up close” so it covers most of the IRL or virtual background, which is the next best thing.
Second, the user experience is basically like having a huge, super-hi-res iPad magically float in the air in front of you, playing your favorite porn while leaving both your hands free for whatever you may choose to do with them.
The experience entirely satisfies one of the main impulses to watch porn: voyeurism. Although Apple Vision Pro — as the latest and sleekest version of humanity’s journey to virtual reality — is going to be heralded for its immersive features, the “being there” or “alternate reality” desire is fundamentally different from the voyeuristic impulse that has driven 2D erotic content since the days of cave paintings, zaftig prehistoric Venuses, Greek vases and Roman mosaics. “Flat” porn experienced through Apple Vision Pro delivers that basic human sexual experience of watching, learning from and being aroused by the sexual activity of others.
A note about sound. Apple Vision Pro delivers sound through its headband, which results in very realistic sound for the wearer, but also sound leakage that others can hear. For porn, or any other use that requires privacy, pairing AVP with Bluetooth headphones is a must.
Porn Paysites and Apple Vision Pro
All of the above considerations about the tube site experience also apply to paysites, with one important addition: entering your credentials.
Apple Vision Pro is fully integrated with the Apple ecosystem, so if you are using one universal Apple ID for all your devices, and have saved your passwords on Safari, it will be pretty painless to log into your favorite paysites.
If you have not done that, the process of entering passwords through Apple Vision Pro’s interface can be annoying. This is a problem common to all VR devices, especially if you’re going back and forth between your phone and laptop and the virtual screens and keyboard, or if CAPTCHA is involved.
One advantage Apple Vision Pro has over earlier VR units is the state-of-the-art “pass-through” video feed of the user’s surroundings. You can look at your other IRL devices while wearing it, although reading from them is still a bit wobbly on account of the still-in-development real-time video resolution.
I sampled some content from several leading paysites and the 2D experience was smooth and impressive, like what I described above for tube sites.
For traditional VR adult content, however, the experience can be rather more frustrating at this stage.
VR Porn and Apple Vision Pro
Yes, as I said at the beginning, you 100% can watch VR porn to have an immersive experience with Apple Vision Pro today.
First, before you open Safari, you need to enable four settings for WebXR that are hidden fairly deep within Settings. The specialist VRPornDog.com website has published the step-by-step instructions on how to find those settings.
All major VR porn sites either provide or are quickly developing WebXR functionality for their content. I tried several of them and as of this week, all of them are WebXR — meaning the functionality is there already — but seconds after the immersive experience started, almost all of them crashed right away, some with the sound still playing.
During my test of the content, almost all the sites were buggy, although by the time you’re reading this, most may have fixed those bugs.
The exception was SexLikeReal, on which WebXR worked fully with 180-degree/200-degree immersive content, with full POV experience.
I sampled several VR videos on the site, all of them created and optimized for earlier equipment, and they all worked with Apple Vision Pro. Again, the resolution varies widely depending on the specs of the original content. But the immersive experiences were there: full-on POV, intimate performances with eye contact, ASMR audio, you-are-there immediacy, all available right now through AVP, in spite of what you may have heard from those who are dying to put “virtue” in virtual.
The only slight annoyance is that the UI/UX for this WebXR content is not the smooth eye-and-fingertapping of Apple Vision Pro’s proprietary interface. The older “floating white gloves with white pointing laser beams” interface — which is rendered instantly dated by the superior AVP experience — can become frustrating in comparison, with selecting, pressing play and pause, fast-forwarding being an imprecise tasks which can interrupt the smooth progress of the immersive erotic experience.
Still, when accessing VR content on SexLikeReal, produced within the last year, the experience of having the virtual performer sitting on my lap and proceeding with a very intense seduction in real time was state-of-the-art for the pre-AVP era. This recent video seemed to me like the current best-case scenario for VR content going into the “spatial computing” age that this device is surely inaugurating.
AVP-Style Spatial Porn is Quickly Approaching Reality
As I’ve mentioned, existing 2D and VR content functions well with the high-end capabilities of Apple Vision Pro. But that’s already the past as of this week: watching current POV VR content felt to me like being in 1926 and enjoying a really great silent movie when you can already see that the talkies are just around the corner.
What are the talkies in this analogy? Spatial porn. The term is still not totally accepted outside of specialist techie circles, but the concept is already there: next-level immersion. The kind of totally sharp, totally sound-designed, you-are-there stuff that has been the subject of many a science-fiction fantasy for decades, if not centuries.
In a nutshell, total escapism, into a new reality.
Two features already available with Apple Vision Pro, both totally SFW, indicate to me what is going to happen with spatial porn — or “real 3D,” or “fully immersive” or whatever we all eventually agree to call this thing.
The Apple Vision Pro function called “Environments” entirely replaces your IRL video feed with a different environment, so your virtual screen is not floating in your living room or wherever you are, but on a hyperrealistic, 360-degree rendering of an epic mountainscape, or a volcano or… the Moon. The moonscape environment was the most impressive to me — you are looking around an endless, barren, monochrome expanse of dust and rocks. Your POV becomes that of Doctor Manhattan from “Watchmen” pondering the pettiness of those silly humans. You can also see a hyperrealistic rendering of your own hands in front of you, which replicate actual movements you’re making with your IRL hands.
There’s also a demo-type experience called “Encounter Dinosaurs,” where you’re plopped into a prehistoric landscape where enormous, hyperrealistic ancient reptiles take an interest in you and “break the fourth wall” by becoming fully 3D and getting really close to your face, apparently to smell you.
So, porn: If you put the “you’re there”-ness of the moonscape and “Encounter Dinosaurs” together and factor in a sexual scenario, it’s a no-brainer. This is the immersive experience people have been theorizing for years. It’s already there, if you just swap the moonscape for wherever you’ve fantasized about fucking — perhaps even the moonscape itself? — and swap the dinosaurs for your preferred object of desire.
The contrast between imagining customizable sexual skins for those environments/experiences, and the existing VR content, is the difference between silent film and the talkies. Even the conception of VR and AR (augmented reality) experiences portrayed in 2017’s “Blade Runner 2049” is already dated. Let’s be real here: If Apple Vision Pro is where we are at 2024, we cannot even fathom the state of the art for 2049.
There’s a catch currently, though: Apple’s long-held anti-porn stance. Right now, the moonscape and dinosaur content is produced with proprietary, “closed ecosystem” technology. So as of Apple Vision Pro’s launch, they’re not going to allow any of that tech to be officially used for sexual content.
“Officially” is the wink-wink word there.
Yup, that sound you hear is thousands of crafty folk — and less prudish competitors — reverse-engineering Apple’s outstanding achievement.
More to come — cum? — soon, for sure.
Making Porn With Apple Vision Pro’s Camera
Everything above refers to experiencing adult content through Apple Vision Pro. But what about making adult content with it? Even spatial porn content?
In case you haven’t kept up with the news, Apple Vision Pro is also a 3D camera, and this feature is also shipping with the iPhone 15.
Do I need to spell it out? People are already making spatial porn with it! Duh.
Remember, photography was invented in 1839. Nudes were invented in 1839 plus 10 minutes. Same for videotape; watch Paul Schrader’s 2002 movie “Auto Focus.” Same for phones with video. AVP has been out for a few days and there’s probably already enough spatial porn out there to make a Utah politician try to outlaw the whole thing.
3D POV and voyeur videos are already next-level with this technology. You can have the act being performed on you, you can perform the act — heck, you can even sit on the hotel’s cuck chair and watch the whole thing. It’s there in glorious hi-def.
The catch? It lives in Apple Vision Pro so you can only share with someone else who has Apple Vision Pro. It’s still — for now — locked in the anti-porn Apple ecosystem. So forget about commercializing it directly — again, for now. Indirectly is another matter. People always find ways to charge and pay for things they really, really want.
That sound you hear? Ah, yes, those same crafty folk and competitors even more busily reverse-engineering how to play spatial porn recorded with Apple Vision Pro through other devices.
More to… yeah, you know.
The Future of Camming in the Fully Immersive Era
Apple Vision Pro is also a game changer for the camming world. If you’ve read this far, I feel I don’t even have to explain why. Everything I’ve said about the existing VR content’s intimacy, plus the moonscape/dinosaur immersion, plus thousands upon thousands of “hot young women and men and enbies in your area that want to video cyber with you,” and you do the math. I know the word “disruptive” was turned into a cliché by tech bros years ago, but AVP-style technology will definitely be disruptive for the camming sector as we know it.
But let’s talk about Alicia Keys for a minute.
Apple Vision Pro has a custom version of Apple’s Apple TV app where it offers mainstream 3D and IMAX movies, regular 2D movies and several demos especially created to show off the new device.
One of the demos is a “you’re there” immersive music session with Alicia Keys and her musicians, where she plays three of her hits in an intimate setting.
Keys is, of course, a universally recognized, sublime singer, songwriter and performer. Her music is transcendent and being able to be “right there” immersed in one of her sessions is a special treat. So please forgive me if I’m going to objectify Ms. Keys for a second. I have nothing but respect and admiration for her artistry, but this is not why I’m bringing up her APV demo for this article.
I hope you don’t think it is out of place to point out that Alicia Keys — objectively speaking — is also a very attractive woman. And for her session, she’s wearing casual clothes that also happen to be tight on her — like yoga pants, if you will. And she is game to engage with Apple Vision Pro’s 3D immersive camera directly, making eye contact, getting close to it — that is, to you, when you’re wearing the goggles.
I want to repeat that this demo is not porn and it is not meant to be sexual — she’s just singing her amazing songs. But given that Apple has outlawed any overt sexual performance from its device, the Alicia Keys demo offers the clearest nonporn, nonsexual example of how the super-hi-res, hyperrealistic, immersive spatial experience could be used by a cam performer. The “you are there”-ness is uncanny. You’ve never seen anything like it.
Apple’s Long-Held Anti-Porn Stance and the Future of Apple Vision Pro
It remains to be seen how adult businesses can monetize fully immersive, spatial content through Apple Vision Pro.
It seems unlikely that Apple will ever revise its “no porn” blanket ban for its App Store, so dedicated porn apps or sites offering upcoming versions of spatial, fully immersive content to be played through AVP will not be available to users.
Safari does not automatically block adult content — although as I mentioned, more and more U.S. states are creating liability that forces individual websites to self-censor through geoblocking — so there are still ways to share adult content that plays on Apple Vision Pro through the web.
And yes, it bears mentioning the obvious: Heavy-hitter Apple competitors like Google and Meta’s Quest are taking copious notes on the good, the bad and the buggy about Apple Vision Pro’s launch. You can never discount upcoming and future devices by those companies as obsolete.
Other Notes, Issues, Conjectures About Apple Vision Pro
Here are some other interesting notes and issues about Apple Vision Pro as it applies to experiencing adult content:
- OK, this is kind of a biggie, and it’s also sort of funny. Remember how the basic haptic gesture that selects, clicks and sometimes even causes menus to appear is tapping your thumb and index finger together? Try it. See the circle your fingers make, which Apple Vision Pro reads as “engage with interface”? Now imagine you’re a person with a penis, masturbating to porn — with your thumb and index finger touching. The AVP gets really confused. Needless to say, this particular haptic is really suboptimal for people with penises who wish to masturbate while interacting with AVP. Also, LOL.
- Apple Vision Pro’s main uses have to do with mixed reality (MR) — the virtual screen floating in front of your environment — or with full immersion, meaning the moonscape/dinosaur/Alicia Keys of it all. This leaves out AR, which is a kind of mixed reality but also slightly different. AVP is ideal for AR, but that potential is being underplayed in favor or MR and spatial content. Non-2D porn companies have extolled the potential of AR for years — “You can have your favorite porn star in your own bedroom!” — so that’s another area where adult companies could thrive if ways are found to crack the Apple ecosystem’s anti-porn bias. The coolest example of this potential is a very low-key moment at the beginning of the “Encounter Dinosaurs” experience, as a hyperrealistic butterfly flies toward the user, still looking at their IRL environment, and lands on their hand.
- Right now, Apple Vision Pro does not offer a digital correction for people who have less-than-perfect vision. This seems like an obvious area for further development, as users could theoretically link the device to their optometrist’s prescription and it could implement the correction. You are not currently able to wear your own glasses while wearing AVP, although Apple sells physical lenses to attach to the goggles. In terms of porn, many people watch it after hours, when they have taken their contacts off to rest their eyes. This makes AVP slightly impractical for that use for the many people with bad vision.
- For adult industry professionals’ productivity, a big advantage of Apple Vision Pro’s mixed-reality interface is the ability to do work — remember: always with your headphones on — in public places where accessing porn websites may be suboptimal.
- Adult gaming and integration with sexual health devices — the “teledildonics” that used to fascinate mainstream media in the early 2000s — are two areas where Apple Vision Pro-style technology will also surely disrupt existing paths of development.
It is still unclear how AVP-style content will be shared and sold outside of the Apple ecosystem, although that sound you hear is thousands of enterprising folks…