
Hernando Chaves, a Beverly Hills marriage and family therapist, said technologies like virtual reality can actually enrich relationships. “You’ll be able to have a sexual relationship with someone you don’t know, and you’ll be able to reserve your intimacy for years later for someone you really care about.” Nuelle CEO and President, Karen Longin, photographed at their lab in Mountain View, Calif., Friday, January 27, 2017. “In the future, you’ll be able to fulfill your sexual desires with a person without creating the requirement that you’ll need to feel intimate toward someone at all,” he said. Phillips envisioned a day when more refined combinations of those devices could create a “separation between sexuality and intimacy.” A less salacious device, introduced by a Singapore firm in December, is the Kissenger, an artificial silicon lip that plugs into a smartphone and transmits kisses across distances. The technology, already available in smartphones, is also widely used in video game controllers and movie theater seats vibrations are timed to the on-screen action.Ī Japanese video game maker has taken that a step further with “Let’s Play with Nanai,” which combines haptic feedback with a smartphone’s motion sensors, VR goggles and an optional sex doll.

Phillips also noted that some sex toys use haptic feedback technology to artificially simulate touch and feel sensations. Will embracing technology make us closer than ever? From niche apps to virtual reality and wearables, even traditional matchmaking has found a new reliance on tech. “They were able to capture the way sexuality is changing in one simple scene.”Įxisting technology can’t create brain sex, but adult-entertainment ventures are exploring the potential of virtual reality, especially video shot from the point of view of one of the actors that can make the viewer almost believe he or she is participating in the scene.

“That scene really sums up where this technology is ultimately heading,” said Bradley Phillips, managing director of an online porn company in Amsterdam. “Demolition Man” was set in 2032, when Bullock’s character, Lenina Huxley, informs Stallone’s character, John Spartan, that the fear of sexually transmitted diseases led to society skipping physical sex in favor of an artificial form produced by “high alpha waves,” generating virtual intercourse in their minds. Leah Millheiser, chief scientific officer at Nuelle, a Mountain View startup that sells a device for enhancing women’s experiences. “This is a space that was ripe for innovation,” said Dr.
