Late British Strip Club Mogul Dreamed Of A Virtual Reality Strip Club Lucyd Follow Jun 10, 2018 · 3 min read

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In the burgeoning world of virtual reality, developers have only just begun to explore the potential of the multitude of applications possible. And as always in the realm of technology, human beings are going to find some way to turn it into entertainment.

Enter Peter Stringfellow, a British entrepreneur with a vision that would make any video game nerd sit up straight: a virtual reality strip club. His untimely death at the age of 77 ultimately prevented him from realizing his vision, but it looks like many aspiring developers have enabled the spiritual successors of his idea to live on.

While the idea of VR pornography, smut and adult titles has certainly taken off on the online games marketplace Steam, it seems that Stringfellow was ahead of his time with his idea. In a 2016 Business Insider article, Stringfellow was quoted as saying:

“I do believe that virtual reality is going to be big. I want a virtual reality Stringfellows. You walk in, you pay to come in, you go to the bar. You’re surrounded by beautiful girls, you choose your girl. You go for a dance and it’s as close up as you’re ever going to want it.”

With the virtual reality industry reaching over 1M headsets worldwide, it’s likely that the trend will continue.

Virtual reality applications of this nature raise certain ethical questions that until now, humanity has not had to face. While it may be convenient for users to experience a more visceral interaction with the opposite sex when compared to simple 2D pornography, one could make the argument that adult VR entertainment will only dehumanize modern life even more.

Obviously, we here at Lucyd would prefer to focus on use cases that are generally more productive than simple pornography, but with an open source architecture and flexible developer tools for creating applications, it’s only a matter of time before adult entertainment proliferates these mediums like it did with the internet.

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