The other day I purchased a VR headset and joked that I had bought a new girlfriend.

In the name of scientific research I figured I should experience "romance" to see how that offering matches up.

For a little background you most likely have zero interest in, my porn "desires" are very lame. It's primarily my imagination which is a 5D experience. I don't really watch videos in the first place. Maybe a nice photo, something inspirational, that kind of thing. Never paid for porn, never will. Just don't really need it.

If you're into videos it might work for you. I'm not particularly part of that crowd, because I've never seen a good video before.

Frankly I found the VR to be a step down from the more tried and true method. Sure you can look all around in VR, but then you spend a lot of time looking around the set which sort of isn't the point. Kind of like when HD televisions first came out, and you saw just how cheap the sets were for sitcoms, and started noticing all the flaws on the actors. You're kind of taken out of the comedic moment.

You start having a second commentary track going on in your head. "Are those handcuffs really on or are they made of plastic?", "Is that a band aid?", "Oh look, a c-section scar", and "Phil? What porn star is named Phil?"

Anyway, watching the roller coaster videos was more fun, but not quite fapping material.

Another "criticism" of the VR romance is the camera effects.

VR content is made with either a dedicated 360° camera with multiple lenses or a collection of cameras that has their content digitally stitched together.

This is fine if you go to a relator website and they're doing a 360° view of a house, the camera is static and you can look all around.

This is even acceptable on a train or roller coaster because although it's moving through space, you are too, and I'm sure most of us have looked through a car window before.

With VR romance, every director apparently thinks they're Sam Raimi. You're looking to the side or something and suddenly something untoward might be in your face when you look back. The camera might lunge around for no reason. Porn loves to to anything from body panning shots to suddenly hard editing into a close up of something you weren't particularly interested in. Or it's POV and, somehow, strapped to someone's head they're moving all around. The movements aren't being made by you, but by someone else.

Kind of "hard" to keep your focus you know?

So in my personal experience, it's better for zombie FPS games and videos made on a train or something. Perhaps the romantic movies will improve over time as the technology is more wide spread.