Oculus founder: no objection to pornographic content on Oculus glasses

Oculus has no plans to actively ban virtual reality porn from its Rift VR goggles. So said Oculus CEO Palmer Luckey at a VR conference in San Jose. Porn producers will have to offer their erotic goods outside the official Oculus store.

Oculus founder Luckey was one of the members of a panel discussion on the future of consumer VR at the first Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference, which took place Monday and Tuesday in San Jose. The other members of the panel were Nick Dicarlo, Samsung’s VR vice president, Clay Bavor, responsible for Google Cardboard, and Amir Rubin, CEO of Sixsense.

A woman from the audience asked the panel whether the VR industry would continue to passively allow or actively block porn in the future. “The Rift is an open platform,” Luckey said in response. “We don’t control the software that can run on the system and that’s important.” The other panel members ignored the question and also gave little response to an earlier question about adult content.

Although Luckey indicates that VR porn will not be banned from the Oculus Rift, as happens on Facebook, the parent company of the VR glasses maker, porn producers must have their own distribution channel to get their aphrodisiac content to the viewer. Oculus VR Share, the official VR marketplace of Oculus, does not allow offensive content. In early May, Oculus announced that the consumer version of the Rift should be released in the first quarter of 2016.