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LOS ANGELES — Chaturbate has announced its first annual Health and Wellness Week, September 20-26, with seven events taking place daily live on the platform.

“The week will be packed with fun, kinky and informative panels and workshops covering topics like mental, physical and spiritual health, with a special focus on broadcasters,” said a rep. 

COO Shirley Lara said Chaturbate is “a community-centric platform and the health and wellness of broadcasters is one of our top priorities. We wanted to give back to the amazing community that makes Chaturbate the platform it is today by offering a week of fun and informative workshops.”

NEW YORK —VR livestreaming platform Dreamcam has launched with the aim to “provide users with the most immersive and personalized adult entertainment experience,” noted a rep.

“Leveraging the latest in VR and livestreaming technology, users are essentially teleported into webcam models’ rooms where they can live out their wildest — or tamest, if that is the user’s preference — sexual fantasies with real-time interaction,” the rep said.

Chief Product Officer Nikita Anufriev explained that users enter into a live session “from the comfort of home and are immediately staring into the eyes of one of the gorgeous models as if they are there alone in the room with them.”

“Users experience the same environment as the model, without external distractions, making the live experience more realistic,” Anufriev continued. “Once people try VR, they will forget about 2D forever.”

The rep noted Dreamcam, launching with 2,000 performers, has been able to “cultivate the most realistic experience to date with features like talk-to-text.”

“It also offers the pristine clarity and maneuverability of the VR live cam, providing an unprecedented intimate feeling. Accessible with Oculus Quest and other major headset brands, Dreamcam offers high-definition detail, ultra-low latency streaming (78 milliseconds), uncompromised video quality (4K 50 frames per second) and a video transmission bitrate of 10 megabits per second.”

While the platform is new, the rep said, “the technology and team are not.”

“Dreamcam has been involved in VR livestreaming industry since the beginning of 2015, broadcasting live sporting and entertainment events worldwide. After identifying an immense opportunity in adult entertainment and raising $12 million in venture capital money, Dreamcam pivoted and collaborated with leading adult companies Stripchat, xHamsterLive and SexLikeReal to support their VR initiatives.”

“Since 2020, the company has grown approximately 20% month-over-month and has established a dedicated user base spanning the globe. To date, the company boasts over 383,000 hours of streaming across 150 countries with teams in 30 locations worldwide,” the rep continued. “Now it is launching its own platform.”

The Dreamcam rep cited “nearly $6.7 billion in revenue” brought in by adult camming in 2020, with the amount expected to double to $11.6 billion by 2027, and more than 171 million VR users worldwide.

“By the end of 2021, almost 20% of people in the United States alone will be using VR headsets in some capacity,” said the rep, “with every two out of three headsets being used for adult content. VR porn is expected to be the third-highest earner behind video games and NFL content, accounting for over 25% of income generated from all VR headsets owned worldwide.”

Anufriev noted Dreamcam is “beyond excited to launch now, in a post-COVID world when people have embraced adult web camming and VR while looking for new forms of entertainment.”

“We’re taking the extremely popular adult live camming experience to the next level and giving people who bought Oculus an opportunity to use — and reuse — their headsets,” they said.

The rep described Dreamcam’s efficacy for performers, noting “a 25% retention rate within the first 90 days” of using the platform.

“With webcam VR from Dreamcam, I can boost my creativity and be myself. This technology brought an unmatched interactive experience for my subscribers,” said performer Verity Nicholson. “It’s just another universe compared to the traditional webcam. I keep experimenting, and the fans love it. I’m super-happy to be among the pioneers of webcam VR and explore its potential.”

Visit Dreamcam online and on Twitter.

BOSTON — Sssh.com has announced a new feature, titled “Sssh Soirée,” which allows couples to watch porn together even when they are apart.

The new feature, a rep said, “creates an entirely new kind of erotic experience by integrating fantasy and reality into a single package.”

Using Soirée, viewers can watch any movie or video content on Sssh.com while seeing and hearing each other in real time, “affording a level of interaction and intimacy that can’t be accomplished in a text-only chat environment,” the rep said.

Sssh.com Founder and Director Angie Rowntree said she was inspired to create Soirée by the stories of isolation and loneliness she heard from both her friends and Sssh.com members during COVID-19 lockdowns.

“The widespread loneliness and isolation that so many experienced during the pandemic can severely harm us on multiple levels,” Rowntree said. “Initially I wasn’t thinking about sex — I wanted to help alleviate that loneliness and address the need we all have for human connection.”

The more she thought about potential applications of her concept, the more Rowntree realized it was an ideal addition to Sssh.com, presenting another means for couples to enjoy the site’s sex-positive, cinematic movies, as well as its library of sex-ed and sexual wellness videos.

“It’s a fabulous trifecta,” Rowntree said, “a perfect union of award-winning cinema, sex tech, and sexual wellness.”

How ‘Soirée’ Works

Members can host a “Soirée” by sending an invite link to their guest and creating a private, virtual viewing room. They can then participate in a video chat while enjoying the movies of their choice from the host’s movie playlist, synced instantly to the guest’s interface.

“The flexible Soirée platform enables couples to enjoy eye contact and see each other’s facial expressions, or to play movies in full screen while maintaining audio contact, depending on the users’ preference at the moment,” the rep added. “With the movies front-and-center, and the ability to interact as you wish with your viewing partner, Soirée is a truly social and integrative viewing experience for consenting adults.”

Rowntree explained that ”Soirée adds a whole new layer of potential to long-distance intimacy, enabling a level of interaction that’s simply not available over the phone or by sexting. And if a couple chooses to combine the use of remote-controlled sex toys with their Soirée sessions, then it becomes a truly orgasmic cinematic experience.”

Privacy and Other Uses

Sssh.com emphasizes that it does not track, record, copy, index, archive or look in on any Soirée sessions conducted by its members.

“Soirée is 100% private with peer-to-peer encryption — an experience that belongs entirely to the viewers who use it,” Rowntree said. “At a time when we’re so often forced to maintain a physical distance between us, Soirée affords a level of intimacy beyond the typical videochat.”

While Rowntree envisions the primary users of Soirée to be couples and lovers watching porn together remotely, she noted that the platform has potential to be very useful in other contexts.

“Soirée also allows access to our curated collection of sexual education and wellness videos, so using the platform can open the door to stronger communication about intimacy and pleasure — not just between couples and lovers, but for play partners, or even platonic friends who might be curious, or otherwise able to benefit from the educational material itself,” Rowntree said.

The Soirée platform can also be used by journalists, film reviewers and film scholars, offering them access to firsthand commentary on the film from the writer, director and actors.

“As the movie plays, the interviewer would be able to ask questions with the benefit of the content and creator(s) right in front of them,” Rowntree noted. “Having licensed my content to mainstream shows and movies in the past, I could see using Soirée to simplify and expedite the process of finding segments and sequences of my movies that fit the needs of the licensee.”

Sssh Soirée is available to Sssh.com members at no additional cost.

For more information, visit Sssh.com, or contact Rowntree via Twitter or email at press@sssh.com to request a demo of the platform.

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