Passthrough Porn is a ‘Game Changer’

Both the Meta Quest 3 and the cheaper new Quest 3S model have been selling like hot cakes over Christmas. Despite all the great games and other things you can enjoy on them, immersive porn is still the number one thing that new owners of a virtual reality headset want to try on it. And because both Quest 3 models have high-quality color passthrough, it isn’t a surprise that thousands are experiencing for the first time the unique thrill of passthrough VR porn. And they’re loving it! One recent post on Reddit captured the excitement and importance of the passthrough experience.

Passthrough is a game changer for real. If I could tell my past self that was downloading 300kb images for 10 minutes each, that this was the future I wouldn’t believe it. This is my own footage in my bedroom.

To illustrate his point, he took a recording of what he was seeing through the VR headset, and it’s hard to disagree with his ‘game changer’ claim.

An increasing number of studios are now filming passthrough scenes, and AI is also making it easier to convert regular VR scenes into passthrough content. Last month the famous Badoink studio started releasing their own exclusive passthrough scenes. Czech AR had already launched much earlier this year, but had stopped updating since the summer. In more good news for passthrough fans, they started releasing new material again this week.

Hardcore fans of passthrough porn will want to join either one of the top two aggregator sites VRPorn or SexLikeReal, both of whom who host their own exclusive passthrough scenes, as well as a small number of other studios who film their own passthrough content. A complete list of passthrough porn sites can be found here.

As the Redditor so eloquently expressed, Internet porn has indeed come a long way from low-res Jpegs that took forever to download, to streaming passthrough porn that brings a beautiful pornstar into your own home. We can only speculate where it will lead. Interactive AI girlfriends that come into being instantly at the verbal prompt of the user, with ultra natural conversational speech, might only be a few years away. The final step would be sex toys that can be fully controlled by an AI girlfriend (already being showcased at a sex tech fair in China earlier this year), and eventually the sexual El Dorado of a haptic suit.