US-based porn site wants everyone to have VR headsets for free

Virtual reality porn is perhaps the best way to bring VR to the mainstream. Right?

Yesterday, we wrote how OnePlus is bringing VR to the masses. We were wrong. A website called FreeVRGoggles.com is giving out Google Cardboard-like virtual reality goggles to users in the US. That’s not what makes us wrong though. FreeVRGoggles.com is sponsored by BaDoinkVR.com, a pornographic website that deals in virtual reality content for the porn industry. In fact, BaDoinkVR was amongst the first to offer such free Cardboard VR headsets in order to promote such content.

What better way to bring VR to the mainstream than for it to be adopted by the porn industry right? It is somewhat inevitable too. VR obviously makes sense for the industry, which has been looking for better ways to reach the public for a long time now. The one word that has always been attached to virtual reality is ‘immersive’, which means that it’s no surprise that the pornographic industry wants to use it.

While providing content over a Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift or other more expensive VR headsets would cost a bomb, the Google Cardboard and its various adaptations (like the OnePlus Cardboard) provides just the opportunity the industry has been looking for. In fact, the porn industry has been working with VR for quite a while now, and it is no surprise that it has pounced on the opportunity provided by the inexpensive Google Cardboard VR headset.