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The ‘Huggable Internet’ Is Changing the Game for Remote Sex

By Jenna Owsianik
March 25, 2015
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Augmented reality expert Scott O’Brien on interactive sex’s swift steps forward

Last November, Future of Sex threw our very first Meetup event in Sydney. We attracted a lively crowd who came out to see our group of thought-provoking panelists, which included augmented reality pioneer Scott O’Brien.

Scott not only shared his insights into the development of augmented reality. He also spoke about the world of online sex, and how it hasn’t always been viewed as an outlet for unbridled pleasure. However, the times are changing. Today, we have haptic technology that lets partners feel their lovers’ movements when they are far away—a move toward the “huggable Internet.”

For those of you who missed out, here’s Scott giving his clever and intriguing views on the evolution of augmented reality and remote sex. The transcript is below the video.

“It’s interesting, as things have evolved as the Internet has come into our lives. I saw a pretty good analogy the other day explaining some of the initial stages of what it meant to have remote relations online. They explained it as eating an ice cream in one hand and doing the dishes in the other. So obviously, pleasure in one hand and a task in another. In my field, augmented reality, at first it was on desktop. So you’re sitting down, that’s the experience. You’re interacting with this web camera, showing like an A4 printout against it, and a dinosaur might leap off the page or something. In 2011, we had an adult entertainment company first try to have women produced this way,  and it represented that the early stages of augmented reality were very much voyeuristic. But where I believe it’s heading to and where—in 2010, I took a five-year bet, that by 2015 we’ll be moving towards more eyewear experiences where we’ll be participatory. So the whole game changes, and we start introducing haptics into our computer experiences.

“Haptics is the feedback, the kinaesthetic feedback, of interacting. Mark will have some great things to say from his days of setting up for web and 3D interaction. But I think the whole game is changing quicker than ever. We’ve had a very slow 20 odd years of remote texting and so on, but now it’s coming into actual visualizations of partner and the actual kinaesthetic feedback. A friend, Dr. Adrian Cheok, who is Aussie now based in the UK, calls it the “huggable Internet.” Once we’ve got the huggable Internet, we’re playing a different game.”

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Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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