'Wicked Paradise' Develops Erotic 3-D Adult Entertainment for Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Technology

Oculus VR, a company that recently received $16 million in venture capitalist funding to bring their virtual reality headset to consumers, made a big splash at this year's E3 gaming conference.

The virtual reality headset technology called "Oculus Rift" allows gamers to work in tandem with a controller and be able to explore a full 360 degree environment with a simple turn of the user's head. While it's obvious to see the impact, this will have on the future of playing video games, one company known as Wicked Paradise has found another promising use for the new virtual reality technology. Wicked Paradise is developing the Oculus Rift's first erotic adult title.

Wicked Paradise;s CEO Jeroen Van den Bosch told Road to Virtual Reality previous attempts for erotic virtual reality games have been "ridiculously bad."

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

Wicked Paradise's philosophy is a strange mesh of erotic entertainment and videogame writing. Bosch discussed the idea that story is everything in an erotic VR title. He compared the company's goal to the hugely popular "Mass Effect" series.

The game includes non-explicit sex scenes between characters he feels "are much more erotic than current available explicit adult videogames." Bosch feels if you care about the characters, like you do in "Mass Effect".

"A player will never feel very attracted to a virtual character if he or she doesn't care," Bosch said. "I believe that virtual reality is the perfect medium for an erotic videogame because you can make the player feel really connected to your computer characters."

There's no real word yet as to when the Oculus VR technology will be available to retailers for consumers to pick up and use. Wicked Paradise progress with their new erotic adult videogame is just another step forward to make the technology a fully developed and viable option for those who want to immerse themselves in a virtual world.

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