The Best Adult Augmented Reality Apps [UPDATED]

March 20, 2024

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Sex and digital imagery equal all kinds of sexual fun!

Comparing augmented reality with virtual reality, it’s unfortunate the latter has received the lion’s share of attention over the last few years, especially since AR has the potential to completely change the adult entertainment landscape.

While virtual reality transports users into new digital realms, augmented reality blends the virtual with the physical, overlaying digital images into the spaces around us. So instead of taking you to a performer entertaining in another environment, AR allows you to bring that performer into your own.

AR Porn Tube [NSFW], which advertises itself as the go-to site for information on adult AR, however, has thankfully done a lot of legwork necessary to single out the best adult augmented reality apps available.

After reviewing the site’s recommendations, we decided to share what it deems the best X-rated AR apps out there, adding own thoughts about the erotic possibilities of the fledgling technology.

HoloKatsu

While not quite ready for primetime—as it remains a work in progress—you can check out a demo for the promising new, hentai-inspired augmented reality adult game HoloKatsu by supporting it as a Patreon.

Developed with the Microsoft Hololens 2 in mind, HoloKatsu does more than scratch pretty much everyone’s Japanese erotica itch by also supporting bHaptics TactGloves, so you’ll not just be able to see one of several outrageously sexy waifus but feel them as well.

Sure, hardware-wise, HoloKatsu, as arousing as it most assuredly is, may not be a great choice for the budget-conscious, but if you can afford a Hololens 2 and a pair of bHaptics TactGloves, you’ll be able to experience for yourself what may possibly be tomorrow’s adult entertainment—today!

EdenXverse

Another up-and-coming AR sex game worth trying is EdenXverse. Patrons lucky enough to have an Android smartphone can pay anywhere from one to ten dollars, whatever they can afford to help support the game’s developers, —and be able to frolic with either Scarlett, Li-Mei, or Hilda. All of which are fully rendered for a wide range of realistic erotic performances.

In a unique twist, players can switch from first to third-person views on the fly and view the characters from any angle at any time, making EdenXverse perfect for anyone with a voyeuristic streak.

If all goes well, the delightfully warped minds behind EdenXverse are reportedly hoping to work with real-life cam performers in the future.

RealGirlsNow

Not so much a single game as an augmented reality site, RealGirlsNow‘s goal is to get as close to giving its users a bona fide strip club experience without having to pay an outrageous cover charge or deal with surly bouncers.

Alas, RealGirlsNow is a little scant when it comes to its technical details—that is what’s necessary in order to gawk at the site’s accurately rendered models. Though it does say it’s designed to work with WebXR-supported devices, such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and other high-end VR headsets, and much cheaper setups like Google cardboard.

The Roommate

Clearly a labor of love by the developer known as Kumier, you can sample The Roommate for the low, low price of three dollars, with the option to tip a few additional bucks if you’re feeling especially generous.

While a little rough around its digital edges, Android phone owners definitely should still give The Roommate a whirl for its innovative animation style, unapologetic eroticism, and how easy it is to flip back and forth from augmented to virtual reality—ideal if you want to superimpose the game’s buxom blond over your living space or have her all to yourself.

Augmenting erotic reality

AR will eventually transform how we experience and interact with adult content. I like to think about it as enhancing visual reality.

Virtual reality, after all, is about replacing what we see while augmented reality takes the world around it and adds to it. Future AR could take the form of important information displayed onto our visual field, like directions or instructions to do an important job, or take pleasant computerized images and add them to what we are already seeing.

And then there’s sex: with AR we will not vanish into new erotic vistas but merge them with the world around us—bringing the best of both worlds together as never before.

What do you think of our list of the Best Adult Augmented Reality Apps of 2019? Did we miss any great AR sex games? Let us know in the comments.

Image sources: HoloKatsu, EdenXverse, Depositphotos

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.