Multi-sensual experience of virtual sex is possible before 2016, said Julia Heiman, director, Kinsey Institute for Research, Bloomington.
SAN FRANCISCO: Top sex researchers have envisioned a future in which artificial sex partners could cater to every fantasy. “A multi-sensual experience of virtual sex is possible before 2016,” said Julia Heiman, director, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, Bloomington.
“There is a possibility of developing erotic materials for yourself that would allow you to create a partner of certain dimensions and qualities, the partner saying certain things in that interaction, certain things happening in that interaction.”
A field dubbed ‘teledildonics’ already allows people at two remote computers to manipulate electronic devices such as a vibrator at the other end for sexual purposes.
“People who use it are just blown away,” said Steve Rhodes, president of Sinulate Entertainment, which has sold thousands of Internet-connected sex devices over the past three years.
Entrepreneurs are also seeking to fuse explicit video imagery with real-life tactile sensation.
Brad Abram, president of XStream3D Multimedia, said his firm’s ‘Virtually Jenna’, an online game in which the player has sex with realistic cartoon of porn star Jenna Jameson, can link hardware devices following the action to genitalia.
Is it possible to go a step further and come up with a sex robot such as that portrayed by actor Jude Law in the 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence or the orgasmatron machine of the 1973 Woody Allen movie Sleeper?
Carl DiSalvo, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, has helped design a robotic device that simulates the warmth and feeling of a hug. He said it could be expanded into the sexual realm. Some researchers say in decades to come advanced devices will be able to stimulate the brain to create a sexual experience without using genitalia.
Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the study of artificial intelligence, said such devices could either trigger an actual physical response from the brain, or have the entire experience take place in the mind with the sensation of sex.
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