An author has claimed that porn will be the driving force behind mainstream consumer adoption of virtual reality headset devices.
Several headsets, including the Oculus Rift, Sony Project Morpheus, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Microsoft HoloLens, Razer OSVR, are set to do battle in this emerging sector.
John Straw, iDisrupted author and chairman of Thomas Cook’s Digital Advisory Board, has looked back on platforms such as VHS, and claims that it won the war against Sony Betamax because of the adoption of the format by the porn industry. 
He believes the same will happen with virtual reality.
He said: “What will drive standard adoption again is porn. The prospect of making porn that immersive and interactive for the porn industry is simply huge.”
