AVN 2017: Cam girls & holograms
Published on Jan 27, 2017
Article "Porn doesn't need a XXX hologram"
CamSoda awakened Pepper’s Ghost, but live streaming might be the industry's only hope.
by Christopher Trout
January 27, 2017
James Young explores whether robots can connect with us emotionally as well as physically, from our therapists to our companions or even our partners. Can robots love us?
Engadget Editor-in-Chief Christopher Trout returns to Kink VR two years after its debut to see how the porn studio’s virtual reality efforts have panned out. Through interviews with industry experts like Cam4VR’s Ela Darling and Naughty America’s Ian Paul, he’ll find an industry still waiting for a big breakthrough.
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The future is terrifying!!!! Kim & John Iadarola break it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!
"Earlier this week, we reported on a subreddit called "deepfakes," a growing community of redditors who create fake porn videos of celebrities using existing video footage and a machine learning algorithm. This algorithm is able to take the face of a celebrity from a publicly available video and seamlessly paste it onto the body of a porn performer. Often, the resulting videos are nearly indecipherable from reality. It’s done through a free, user-friendly app called FakeApp.
One of the worst-case uses of this technology raised by computer scientists and ethicists I talked to is already happening. People are talking about, and in some cases actively using, this app to create fake porn videos of people they know in real life—friends, casual acquaintances, exes, classmates—without their permission."
Mathematics and sex are deeply intertwined. From using mathematics to reveal patterns in our sex lives, to using sex to prime our brain for certain types of problems, to understanding them both in terms of the evolutionary roots of our brain, Dr Clio Cresswell shares her insight into it all.
Dr Clio Cresswell is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at The University of Sydney researching the evolution of mathematical thought and the role of mathematics in society. Born in England, she spent part of her childhood on a Greek island, and was then schooled in the south of France where she studied Visual Art. At eighteen she simultaneously discovered the joys of Australia and mathematics, following on to win the University Medal and complete a PhD in mathematics at The University of New South Wales. Communicating mathematics is her field and passion. Clio has appeared on panel shows commenting, debating and interviewing; authored book reviews and opinion pieces; joined breakfast radio teams and current affair programs; always there highlighting the mathematical element to our lives. She is author of Mathematics and Sex.
Cyborg presenter James Young journey’s across the world to meet the makers and users of sex robots who have plans for a Westworld future where sex bots live amongst us.
In Barcelona, James visits Dr Sergi Santos and his wife Maritza, creators of one of the world’s most advanced sex robots and the answer, they suggest, to many couple’s miss-matched libido. Sergei tests out his latest robot and James finds out how Maritza copes with Sergei using the dolls himself.
Elsewhere in Barcelona James also finds simple versions of the robots, not yet fitted with AI, being used in a brothel and visits a professional sex toy tester who tries out one of the latest male sex dolls to hit the market.
Back in the UK, James visits Sergei’s business partner Arran who has been demo’ing a Samantha robot in a sex shop near Liverpool. Arran tells James about his latest plan - to offer his sex robots to elderly people’s homes.
In Japan, James meets two of the most human-like robots to have been created before discovering a darker side to the sex robot industry when he visits a factory mass-producing ultra-realistic dolls.
So do we really want sex robots in our lives?
From digital helpmates like Siri to computer-generated models like Lil Miquela, feminized tech is all around us. Are actual human women starting to look a little bit unreal?
Sex robots are front page news: newspapers say they are threatening our relationships, opening a Westworld-like scenario, substituting women, spurring violence and encouraging the end of the human kind. In fact they are much more than that and they represent a turning point for both technology and human relationships and not necessarily in a negative way.
Karolina Korth in TEDxIEMadrid 2019 Karolina Korth is a trained psychologist with a passion for innovation and has over 10 years of experience in transformation in multinationals. She has a wealth of experience in corporate innovation and business development in healthcare and smart cities. Currently, she works as a Chief Digital Officer and Head of Strategy at Siemens Mobility in Spain where she defines and implements digital offerings on the cutting edge of mobility. Karolina is also a founder of Health 2.0 Kuala Lumpur and the FeMale Voice of Mobility – movement to empower women in male-dominated industries. She speaks regularly at conferences targeting digital transformation and gives lectures at business schools and universities.
As the old adage goes, sex sells. A panel of investors and founders will discuss the opportunities — and challenges — of building a successful sex tech startup, and how to capitalize on a market that’s projected to be worth more than $123 billion by 2026.