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the military space, or for other purposes, but try to increase the price when it comes to VR,
I am proud that Terpon from its inception is a the same way some tried to charge more for
company that is seeking to apply the best VR tech 1080p when 720 video became obsolete - but
on the planet to activities that are solely aimed competition in the industry will rapidly bring
at entertaining people and bringing them closer VR to the same price points as traditional 2D
together in the most intimate way any form of content. The key thing to keep in mind is that
distant communication has ever allowed. when that happens, anyone who still isn’t ready
to provide VR will probably be wiped off the map.
You don’t see successful adult sites broadcasting
PM - Terpon has developed cameras anyone can 640x480 video anymore, and in the near future
use, but what about issues relating to competing having only fat content available simply won’t be
platforms and standards throughout the VR good enough.
landscape right now?
I do think there will always be a place for 2D
JC - That’s a great question. The problems arise content libraries, the same way people still offer
when a proprietary format is applied on the server zip fles of images and lower resolutions for
side, which is not the case with Terpon since we dial-up or slower mobile connections. VR will
have decided to be an open-end technology become a new standard that consumers expect,
as much as possible. It is also why we want to with far more engaging intimacy that lends itself,
encourage all the current VR and connected-toy especially with Cams, to longer shows and far
companies from the adult industry to join with greater viewer retention. I also see huge potential
us in an independent organization that will help to expand the market of female porn customers,
defne a norm for all the metadata that needs but there are many brilliant people in adult who
to be transported along with the VR video feed. know more about content than I ever will. I’m
On the client side, the battle of today is more excited to provide the technology and see what
between the VR viewer Apps. There are so many, the most creative camera crews on the Internet
some good, some terrible, and some choosing to come up with as adult entertainment evolves
be unfriendly toward adult content already. This once again!
battle will end without a winner. I strongly believe
that watching VR with a phone on your face will
be as strange to imagine in the future as using PM - Is there anything else you’d like to add that
a telephone with a handset wired to the wall people should know?
seems to all of us today. Within a few months,
All-in-One headsets will massively penetrate the JC - I think people really need to know that VR is
market at very aggressive price points and that very easy to get into right now. Terpon is taking
will quickly be the end of cardboard and phone- care of all the technological requirements on
based VR viewing. Once it becomes all about an ongoing basis. That’s why we intend to rent
All-in-One headsets, it will be very easy to play webcams to studios and performers at a very
VR videos on all platforms, and I am sure that all low price, with free upgrades shipped at zero
headset manufacturers will provide the necessary cost every time a new version of cameras are
APIs to include their devices in your broadcast available. Everything is plug-and-play, all you
specs. It is important that the adult industry need is a computer with a standard USB port and
work together to help create the standards, so you are ready to broadcast in VR right now. We
that adult content can dominate the market like provide tech support, iron out any wrinkles you
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PM - What do you think will happen with VR
content price points?

JC - Right now there are pre-recorded VR
sites charging a premium for their content and
properly monetizing the excitement of early
adopters. Eventually, I think VR will become
commoditized like HD. For a period, some will

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