Virtual X
“One of the first industries to adopt Virtual Reality (VR) was the porn industry. As the technology rapidly advances, in a near future users will be able to fulfil their sexual fantasies by accessing hyper-realistic environments and experiences.”
How could Virtual Reality impact the future of sex?
This project was developed to investigate the future of virtual pornographic experiences and the impact they could have in the physical world. Early research in VR has proven that there is a link between virtual experiences and behaviours or attitudes in the physical world. If pornography were to move into a virtual domain tomorrow, would deviant sexual behaviour be encouraged or would it simply just become a mechanism to elude the legal and moral constraints of the physical world?
Virtual X is a design project that investigates the possible legitimisation of the illegal sexual practice of rape if it were to be made available in VR and how this may impact our society. It means to interrogate the existing legal and ethical systems and propose a future scenario that questions the lack of existing regulation in the coming virtual world.