Virtual reality porn comes to Oculus Rift

Wicked Paradise, an erotic adventure game, is under development for the Oculus Rift virtual reality platform, according to Eurogamer and Kotaku.

 

“I was always fascinated by the fact that we have hundreds of beautifully crafted shooter games but not a single well designed erotic video game,” said mobile developer Jeroen Van den Bosch, leader of the team working on the game. “Sure there have been some attempts in the past, but they all have been ridiculously bad.

 

“There is nothing sexy about unrealistic models that move like rusty robots with faulty servos. If you want to genuinely create an erotic atmosphere in a videogame you need to convincingly cross the uncanny valley.”

 

To ensure the game meets industry standards and survives the stiff competition from other more mainstream games, Jeroen Van den Bosch brought together a versatile eight-man team composed of “seasoned video game industry veterans” who have worked on triple A titles such as Call of Duty, Rage, Madden, Lost Planet, and PlanetSide 2.

 

Aside from his startup studio’s previous experience with the aforementioned games, den Bosh is also drawing inspiration from BioWare’s seminal sci-fi series, Mass Effect.

 

“The non-explicit sex scenes in Mass Effect are much more erotic than current available explicit adult video games,” said den Bosch. “This is because you care about the characters in Mass Effect. A player will never feel very attracted to a virtual character if he or she doesn't care. I believe that virtual reality is the perfect medium for an erotic video game because you can make the player feel really connected to your computer characters.”

 

At the moment, the game is in the pre-production stage. It will make use of the Unreal Engine, as well as full body motion capture to inject a heavy load of realism into the sex scenes.

 

Wicked Paradise will be episodic in its release. The preliminary outings will concentrate on heterosexual content for men, with follow-ups doling out heterosexual interactions for women. Future installments will explore LGBT themes.

 

The Oculus Rift VR headset, which is being developed by the company Oculus VR, is an upcoming virtual reality device featuring a display unit that is mounted on the player’s head. Several games are already in development for the system, including horror titles such as Among the Sleep, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and, for hardcore veterans of the first-person-shooter, Doom 3: BFG Edition and Doom 4.

Wicked Paradise will be available in 2014. — TJD, GMA News