--- title: "Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Can’t Play VR Porn" description: "Apple's new Vision Pro headset VR doesn't support \"immersive\" adult content — and the people who bought it for that are not happy." date: "2024-02-05" modified: "2024-02-05" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/apple-vision-pro-vr-adult" categories: - "Future Society" - "Virtual Reality" tags: - "apple" - "porn" - "vision pro" - "vr porn" --- # Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Can’t Play VR Porn ![Apple's new Vision Pro headset VR doesn't support "immersive" adult content — and the people who bought it for that are not happy.]() *\Image: David Swanson / AFP via Getty / Futurism\* A 3D porn enthusiast [mused]() the night before receiving their Apple Vision Pro headset that they were spending their "last night suffering" with their Meta Quest 3 — and was in for a very unwelcome surprise upon discovering the pricey goggles don't support VR porn at all. As the unstoppable crew over at [*404 Media* report](), some of the folks who purchased the [$3,500 headsets]() and intended to use them for lewd ends have been complain about the lack of porn on the Vision Pro. The concept of immersive 3D porn has [long tantalized consumers]() and [content creators]() alike. As VR technology [creeps ever closer]() to actually being awesome, the community of people craving those adult experiences seems to have grown — and with it, apparently, their expectations. "An ode to my last night suffering with being able to see the space between the pixels on my Meta Quest 3 while trying to watch VR porn, breaking my otherwise pristine immersive experience," the aforementioned inferior tech-endurer posted on the r/VisionPro subreddit. "Tomorrow ushers in a new frontier of masturbatory technology." It didn't take long for that user — who went on to found the [r/applevisionnsfw subreddit]() to try to crack the case — and [others]() [like]() [them]() to figure out that the headset's maker precludes not only porn apps, but also, inexplicably, web-based VR porn as well. Someone even called it a "[3500$ chastity belt]()," replete with several clown emojis. As *404* points out, Apple founder Steve Jobs' hawkish anti-porn stance, which he called a "[moral responsibility]()," seems to be holding firm with its latest big-ticket offering, making it not all that surprising that people can't download VR porn apps directly to their Vision Pros. But as other immersive porn fans have mused, it's "[pretty shocking]()" that they haven't been able to get web-based alternatives to work. As the report explains, Apple has since 2022 allowed the use of WebXR, the API that VR porn makers typically use, on its Safari browser. Vision Pro is [supposed to support it]() as well, but it apparently doesn't. The prevailing Reddit theory as to why it doesn't work is that until now, VR pornographers haven't needed to optimize their videos for Safari, so they just haven't — but if they want to capture the Vision Pro audience, which seems sizable indeed, they'd better get on that. To be clear, browser-based porn does load on the Vision Pro's browser — but the [simulated screen is flat](), rather than immersive in the way these horndog headset-wearers want it to be. There are some dedicated VR porn connoisseurs who have changed settings in Safari to optimize WebXR themselves, but even they say their limited success has been full of glitches and isn't much better than the flat 2D porn that does load on the Vision Pro's browser. In the meantime, however, the Singapore-based sex toy brand Lovense did announce that its "Lovense Remote" app is optimized for Vision Pro, which means that long-distance lovers can control their partners' sex toys remotely "using intuitive hand gestures," as [*Venture Beat* explained](). But for the terminally single who seem well-represented in the VR scene, that solution won't give much comfort. **More on Vision Pro:** [*Ridicule Erupts* as *Apple Reveals* the *Avatars* in *Its Super Expensive VR System*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()