Porn in AR

Ever since AR started to be popular, the question of using pornography on it has been in the air. After all, it seems obvious to use AR for those proposes. Well, last week, the first formal step of embracing porn in AR was made by Layar, by enhancing the Playboy Magazine, Netherlands edition. You can check it out here.

Why is this relevant?

Well, for the simplest of reasons: Porn drives traffic. In this case awareness, so the more awareness AR has the better (of course within reasonable limits). The home video adoption (VHS & Betamax) was helped in a long way by the offer of porn movies (putting aside the porn beta myth), same with DVD and of course, the internet.

So while many of us won’t –frequently?– use this, it doesn’t mean others won’t. Whether we agree or not with the issue, people watch porn, its a fact of life. Hence whoever takes advantage of this fact, takes advantage of other things, like it has happen in previous mass mediums use by humanity.

Welcome AR to Playboy! 🙂