The website for Wicked Paradise tempts potential players with dirty talk. Line by line, it invites you to imagine entering a “highly realistic” virtual world, seducing a “beautiful lady”, and finally “having passionate wild sex with her”. As long as you're attracted to women, this kind of virtual-reality erotica sounds like a dream. But like so many affairs that involve the potential for “sexual adventures”, it could just turn into a nightmare.
For all that the Oculus Rift seems to have melted away the industry's scepticism around virtual reality, the device still has issues. Nate Mitchell, VP of Product at Oculus VR, gave a talk at GDC Europe this year in which he explored what he said was “easily one of the hardest challenges in VR”, which most people who've tried virtual reality are definitely familiar with: Simulator Sickness.
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