Behind the Scenes of a Virtual Reality Porn Shoot

When Todd Glider, CEO of virtual reality porn studio and media company Badoink, asked me to drop in on a VR porn shoot, I couldn’t help but think of that scene in The Big Lebowski where the Dude meets Jackie Treehorn at his palatial Malibu home, and the porn magnet tries to sell Dude on the future of pornography.

“Standards have fallen in adult entertainment. It's video, Dude, now that we're competing with those amateurs, we can't afford to invest in little extras like story, production value, feelings.” Jackie says. “New technology permits us to do very exciting things on interactive erotic software. Wave of the future, Dude. 100 percent electronic.”

Like the Dude, I thought, well, I still have sex manually. But, away I went to a five-story Hollywood Hills home for Badoink’s VR porn shoot.

Badoink’s VR shoot occupies a location on the top floor of the mansion. Within this space, the action is restricted to the front door and living room areas. Both are spacious and modern, with white walls and tasteful furnishings. Nothing exotic, nothing ostentatious. It’s remarkable only for how standard it looks—for Hollywood Hills mansions, that is.

After a quick glance at two VR camera rigs off to the left in a dining room area, Glider introduces me to the director Nick Melillo, who stands by a desk in a small office area located the living room’s open floor plan. He moves around the desk and quickly shakes my hand before telling an assistant to “get that Bill Clinton picture off the wall,” then roams around taking photos of the VR camera rig. Other producers and assistants move about like any other film production.

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