Fast Company Profiles Naughty America's Plans for VR, AR

Fast Company Profiles Naughty America's Plans for VR, AR

SAN DIEGO — Fast Company magazine published on Saturday an in-depth piece on the present and future of AR and VR, anchored by an interview with Naughty America founder and CEO Andreas Hronopoulos.

Hronopoulos, writes Fast Company’s Janko Roettgers, “wants to beam strippers into people’s living rooms — and after a few years of tinkering, he thinks he’s finally found the tech to make his x-rated version of the Star Trek holodeck work.”

After experimenting with augmented reality and virtual reality for years, Roettgers reports, in 2018 Naughty America “launched one of the industry’s first augmented reality apps for mobile phones, which allowed people to superimpose adult models over the camera view of their phones.”

Last October, Hronopoulos saw his early commitment to AR vindicated when Meta debuted its Quest Pro VR headset. “Oh wow, that’s the product,” Hronopoulos recalled saying to himself. “Augmented reality is here.”

The article also mentions Naughty America’s successful VR unit, which has produced several award-winning titles since its inception in 2015, including this year’s XBIZ Award-winning “Party Girls,” featuring Kenzie Anne, Ashley Lane and Jazlyn Ray.

In preparation for the much-ballyhooed dawn of the metaverse, Naughty America has relaunched its original AR site, Real Girls Now. The company has also kept busy digitizing 360-degree holographic images of stars for future use in AR environments.

Among its cutting-edge pursuits, the company has also debuted another AR site, Virtual Sex World, that uses animated characters instead of real-life performers. “You can be a lot more iterative on animation,” Hronopoulos told Fast Company.

Hronopoulos remains confident about the intimacy-enhancing future of these new technologies. In VR, he told the reporter, users “want to look into the eyes of the models. It’s going from watching to experiencing.” 

To read “The Future of Porn Is in Your Living Room,” visit FastCompany.com.

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