AT the push of a button, new tech can transport you to the set of a porn film or into a stunning model's bedroom - without ever of leaving your own home.

Virtual reality (VR) tech means that just by pulling on a headset, you can immerse yourself into any world you choose and see your surroundings in 360-degree 3D, as if you are actually there.

4 Pulling on a VR headset can transport you to anywhere in the world in full, immersive, 360-degree 3D Credit: Credit: Michal Moravcik / Alamy Stock Photo

While this VR software has clear uses in the world of gaming, the tech has also, predictably, started to trickle down to the world of adult entertainment as well.

The appeal is obvious: why would you sit watching a boring old porn video on a 2D laptop screen when you can pop on a headset and put yourself in the middle of the action?

VR kit is slowly starting to hit the market, and adult sites are already starting to embrace the tech as a way to add intimacy to their clips and make porn feel more real.

But experts fear this could have profound consequences if people decide they'd rather leave the real world behind and take up residence in a virtual one.

4 Porn companies are already looking at how they can use VR tech Credit: Credit: Francesco Vessia / Alamy Stock Photo

Porn reborn

Robert Weiss, digital intimacy expert and author of Sex Addiction 101, told Sun Online that this tech makes virtual encounters feel so real and intimate that people will find it hard to turn them down.

He said: "VR porn is going to change a generation. The people creating the tech have said that they think people will end up having virtual sex before they go on a date.

"The whole development of relationships and connection and sexuality - and the organisation and order of it all - is all getting tossed up in the air."

But VR porn is just the start of it.

4 Robert Weiss, an expert on sex in the digital age, told us that VR porn could be hard for many people to resist Credit: Twitter / @RobWeissMSW

Cam again?

Even more addictive than VR porn is VR "camming", Robert warns.

Short for "webcamming", camming is the term for an already existing, highly interactive type of porn where models perform live, via video, for paying customers.

Viewers can pay for the models to take off their clothes, perform a specific action or even have a conversation with them, if they tip well enough.

It's already an estimated billion-dollar industry, with millions of active users... so imagine the draw of camming in immersive virtual reality.

4 VR can transport you to anywhere... including a cam model's bedroom Credit: Getty - Contributor

A handful of VR cam sites have already popped up as more and more customers - and models - get on board with the tech.

And Robert, who has worked with hundreds of sex addicts, thinks the pull of using VR to transport yourself to a cam model's bedroom will be too much for many men to resist - and make it harder for them to leave their own.

He said: "When VR camming starts, we're going to lose thousands and thousands of people to it. And it's only a couple of years away.

"When you sit there and you face that person, and they are loving, warm, sexy and engaging - and you're not looking at a screen, you feel like you're with them.

"That's going to be the game changer. Everything we're seeing now, in my 25 years of experience, is going to be nothing compared to what happens when VR really rolls out in the next few years."

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An alluring illusion

Camming is already far more intimate and personal than regular porn, and VR tech is capable of blurring the lines between reality and performance even more.

Throw in teledildonic sex toys, which allow the cam models to stimulate you physically, despite being half the way around the world, and the lines disappear entirely.

Meanwhile, the VR headset brings the model up close, creating the feel of a real sexual interaction or, if you're a regular customer, a real relationship.

But it's all an illusion.

The women are real women, of course, but they're just working, and they can't even see the blokes who are paying to watch them.

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Robert said: "I used to work with men who had phone sex problems. They would spend hour after hour on the phone, spending £3.99 a minute all to get some woman to say 'I want you'.

"Men like that, when they find themselves facing someone in VR, they're never going to leave that room. They will spend fortunes.

"The challenges we'll see are people who don't know how to date, or how to be intimate. I'm going to have more clients than I can tolerate.

"We are going to have men sitting behind their screens who will never leave them, paying for virtual smiles."