Best VR Headsets For Porn: Battle Of Titans | 2020-2023 Buyer’s Guide

VR has become a hot topic in technology in recent years. Gaming is the most significant industry backing this technology, boasting potential for all new kinds of gameplay and immersive experiences. And we all immediately want to try out one specific thing – porn.

Erotic game developers and content creators have expressed interest and intent to pour a lot of effort into making the entire use of VR for better, more immersive experiences. At the moment, this is mainly achieved through stereoscopic 3D and 360-degree fields of view, placing you in action, as it were, not unlike regular games. This may not sound like much, but if you haven’t tried an erotic production that places you as a player in the goings-on, you’re missing out.

What's better for watching porn Video Glasses or a Headset?

What’s crucial for porn?  Presence effect. No other video glasses will give you that. And from 2020 to 2023, this effect of presence and interaction can only be provided by the virtual reality helmet Meta (Oculus) Quest II.

Basically, two models compete for the first place: the new Oculus Quest 2 and the Pimax 5K XR with OLED panels, 200° diagonal FOV, and a total resolution of 5120*1440. However, let’s be honest: price matters. That is why, I opt for the Oculus Quest 2, which is half the price of the Pimax.

Late in 2020, the Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta) came out on the market. To date, this is the optimal choice: advanced and reasonably priced. I have already tested this headset, and it is suitable not only for VR games but also for watching videos. It gives a high-quality image (the Quest 2 has a resolution of 1832*1920 per eye, much more than the previous version offers) and 100% immersion.

Facebook has done a great job. From my perspective, it's Still-the-Best VR Headset For Porn by the end of 2022, and I think it will also hold the lead in the first half of 2023. Made with a premium high-resolution display, this all-in-one VR system will allow you to catch every detail while watching your favorite porn. Moreover, you will experience true immersion and hear in all directions with built-in speakers. The Oculus Quest 2 features intuitive controls, an ergonomic design, a fast processor, backward compatibility, and excellent color reproduction.

You may also try lightweight pocket-size wearables like Rokid Air Glasses, which we've tested and reviewed. You can read about video glasses here. 

In short, these are not 100% AR augmented reality glasses yet. It’s a wearable display. So, watching videos and playing video games are OK.

In general, my impression is positive. I like playing, but googles are not as good as I expected for work. It’s a suitable replacement for a TV. But it is still not a substitute for a monitor. If you agree to spend about $400 on a geek tech gadget and want a lightweight pocket-size wearable display, then I recommend Rokid.

Video Glasses vs. Headsets Comparison

• If we compare Rokid to the Goovis Cinego Cinema headset, the screens are comparable, while the glasses are lighter, more convenient, and cheaper. The Goovis is heavier and closes the eyes tightly when Rokid has transparent lenses.
• But if we compare Rokid glasses to the Oculus headset at approximately the same price, I consider the Oculus Quest 2 is Still-the-Best VR Headset in early 2023. It is a more comfortable, all-in-one device for watching movies on a giant virtual screen.

VR has become a hot topic in technology in recent years, mimicking the 1990s in that regard. Unlike the 1990s, though, modern technology, for an admittedly escalated price, can accommodate the somewhat immersive experience promised back in the days of parachute pants and mullets.

Of course, gaming is the most significant industry backing this technology, boasting the potential for new gameplay and immersive experiences. Let’s be honest with ourselves, though. With any new digital technology, we immediately want to try out one specific thing – porn.

There are two types of people in the world – people who enjoy erotica and admit it and people who lie and say they don’t. It’s only natural. Sexual repression/frustration is severely unhealthy, and the more immersive and compelling erotica can be made, the better. VR has a lot of potential in this regard, though it’s an underdeveloped and somewhat missed opportunity.

But there are a lot of VR headsets on the market, and none are a light purchase. So, let’s take a look at four of them and see which one wins the title of best VR headset for porn.

Best VR Headset for Porn: Pimax vs. Oculus Rift vs. Oculus Go | Comparison

• Color Reproduction
• Resolution
• Immersion
• Convenience
• Price
• Autonomy and Portability

Color Reproduction

It’s easy for the importance of color and resolution to be lost in today’s technology. We’ve been enjoying 16-million color, high-definition video on even the cheapest devices for at least fifteen years now, and we might assume that any old VR headset can produce a good enough picture. How would a few extra colors or a little bit of extra definition make erotica better?

For one, better color with a proper refresh rate abates the motion sickness and dissociation caused by early attempts at modern VR, and the added realism and smoothness actually work well with perceptive autonomic centers of the brain, thus providing a legitimately more sensual and engaging experience.

• Pimax 5K XR – This is an OLED display, an OLED can provide a wider range of genuine colors. A problem that a lot of display systems have is the inability to create true whites and true blacks, instead of providing slightly off whites and very dark grays. This might seem like no big deal, but without proper black and proper white, the picture will never feel as real nor as vivid as it should. We want VR to surround us in a world that can pass for real, and the real world isn’t a washed-out thing.
• Oculus Rift – The Oculus Rift is one of the more well-known PC VR headsets, but it’s also slightly aging technology now, lacking the OLED clarity of the Pimax, relying on high-resolution LCD instead. It’s about like living in a 1080p reproduction of the world, which could result in a slightly less vivid experience. The Oculus Quest shines in other areas we’ll get to, but for a picture, it’s average at best.
• Oculus Rift S – This one can actually provide a “4K” quality image though, when it comes to stereoscopy, the resolution system doesn’t quite translate the same way. This is a sharper image than the Quest, but still doesn’t quite hold up to the warm, vivid clarity of the OLEDs in the Pimax.
• Oculus Go Standalone – This one shines in some other areas too but actually has a disappointing color clarity, looking very washed out, sacrificing video bandwidth and display refresh power for portability. It’s not horrid, you won’t rue the day you bought it if the strengths of it outweigh your desire for vivid colors, but it’s very average.

Winner for Color Reproduction: Pimax 5K VR

Resolution

The resolution goes hand in hand with color reproduction and is honestly a more perceptible part of the experience. A lot of VR headsets have a “screen door” effect because magnifying lenses and closeness to the eyes make the pixel grid more visible than what we experience from screens we’re a foot or more away from.

Resolution in the traditional sense isn’t really quite applicable when it comes to VR, so we’ll be comparing more by reduction of that screen door effect, and comparability (not equality) to HD classifications. You will notice most VR doesn’t list a specific resolution because optics are weird with this kind of platform.

• Pimax 5K VR – The Pimax equates itself to 2560x1440p, though again, these resolutions don’t quite mean the same thing here. That’s about a 2K resolution comparably speaking. The problem is that while the gorgeous OLED display system makes some vivid colors and a sharp picture, the Pimax’s reduction of screen door effect is frankly piss poor. You’ll stop noticing it after a while, but it takes a bite out of the immersion.
• Oculus Rift – Oculus doesn’t try to give you hard numbers on their resolutions for the most part, because they know how more or less meaningless the numbers are to people used to screen resolutions. The Quest is comparable to the Pimax, but the screen door effect is worse due to slightly older display technology. It does however have some post-processing to take the edge off “chunky pixels” and do some frame smoothing, which actually does give it something of an advantage for 60fps experiences.
• Oculus S – The Oculus S is hands down the winner in this category, thanks in no small part to far better postprocessing with minimal lag, excellent anisotropic scaling capabilities, and advanced optics for screen door reduction. You actually can’t see the pixels on this one unless you’re looking for them, and you kind of have to strain your eyes in a weird kind of focus to see that. Don’t do that.
• Oculus Go Stand-Alone – This one claims to have fantastic optics, and while it does have the broadest range of view, oddly enough, its optics do a poor job in post-processing and in screen door reduction. The next iteration of this will surely surpass the S, however.
• Oculus Newest Quest 2 – Facebook has done a great job. Made with a premium high-resolution display, this all-in-one VR system will allow you to catch every detail while watching your favorite porn. You will be able to experience true immersion and hear in all directions with built-in speakers. The Oculus Quest 2 features intuitive controls, an ergonomic design, a fast processor, backward compatibility, and nice color reproduction. It gives a high-quality image (the Quest 2 has a resolution of 1832*1920 per eye, which is much more than the previous version offers) and 100% immersion.

Winner for Resolution: Oculus Quest 2 

Immersion

At the end of the day, Immersion is the ultimate goal of VR, be it a simulation, escapism into a surreal world or, in our case, experiencing the most realistic erotic experience possible. A problem with a lot of VR headsets is that you’re so aware of the damn thing being attached to you, that the immersion of the optics is negated by discomfort, cumbersome design, and so forth.

You’ll be surprised which one wins this category. Then again, maybe not.

• Pimax 5K – This one doesn’t involve a billion cables and isn’t super heavy, and with the vivid colors, it’s definitely a pretty immersive experience. However, the dependence on the limited range, occasional use of wires, and the controllers kind of breaks some of the illusion. Also, let’s face it, when we’re enjoying porn, for reasons, we may not want our hands occupied by clunky controllers.
• Oculus Rift – This one frankly has the same problems, for the same reasons, so there’s no sense in repeating ourselves.
• Oculus S – This one’s advanced optics (despite its less fantastic color reproduction) does make it one of the most immersive experiences on a purely visual standpoint. Unfortunately, it does still have a little bit of clunkiness that takes away from the immersion.
• Oculus Go Standalone – This one is the winner in this category, solely because it requires no controllers unless you want them, it can work via Bluetooth or other devices, and has full free-range movement. You’re not plugged into anything, it’s just you and the headset in any position you like. Take that as you will.
• Oculus Newest Quest 2 – Made with a premium high-resolution display, this all-in-one VR system will allow you to catch every detail while watching your favorite porn. You will be able to experience true immersion and hear in all directions with built-in speakers. The Oculus Quest 2 features intuitive controls, an ergonomic design, a fast processor, backward compatibility, and nice color reproduction. It gives a high-quality image (the Quest 2 has a resolution of 1832*1920 per eye, which is much more than the previous version offers) and 100% immersion.

Winner for Immersion: Oculus Quest 2 

Convenience

Another big problem with VR is how uncomfortable it is. These things are heavy, they’re sometimes complicated, they’re claustrophobic. So, they can have the most amazing image ever, but if they’re not convenient and comfortable, well, it doesn’t ultimately matter.

This category was hard to pick a single winner for, and so I will break the rules and name two.

• Pimax 5K – This isn’t a heavy headset considering the use of crystal in its optics, to be completely honest. It’s 1.04 pounds, which is about like one and a half cans of soda. That’s kind of heavy, but for what you get, it’s not THAT heavy.
• Oculus Rift – The quest weights a little more at 1.1 pounds, and has seen a lot of complaints about this weight being a bit painful as it digs into the cheekbones and stresses the base of the skull with its front-loadedness. The Quest isn’t comfortable, and it isn’t very easily portable. It’s also a bit on the fragile side, which makes transporting it risk it could become misaligned. Yeah, this one doesn’t win convenience from any angle.
• Oculus S – This thing is bloody heavy! It weighs 1.87 pounds, which makes it a pain to lug around, it’s complex to connect, and it’s not that comfortable in all reality. It has a nice optic system, it’s not uncomfortable to the face, but this kind of weight strains the neck. Sorry, S, you’re a clunky headache.
• Oculus Go – The Oculus go is the lightest-weight one, at 12.5 ounces, or just a tiny notch heavier than a can of unopened soda. This is about as light as you can get without going into “garbage smartphone VR” solutions. This can be a slight disadvantage to some as if you don’t tighten it, it may wobble about on your face a bit, but if you adjust it correctly, it’s comfortable and light. It’s also stand-alone, meaning it can be easily set up and transported.

Winners for Convenience: Oculus Go and Pimax 5K XR

Price

VR is expensive, isn’t it? Well, putting aside the quality of optics and comfort, if we just look at the price, it’s pretty clear-cut. You can probably guess the winner of this comparison before I even get into it. I won’t list specific prices, as they change on a whim, but the tier of pricing here is not going to change anytime soon.

If price is a driving factor to your VR entry, well, here you go.

• Pimax 5K – This thing is expensive as hell. It’s the most expensive VR headset I’ve seen in the home market, and I nearly choked on my coffee when I read the current price tag, which approaches a grand. It’s because of the optics and compatibility, but man, if budget is your concern, this ain’t it, chief.
• Oculus Quest – The Oculus quest is significantly cheaper than the Pimax, being about on par with a new gaming console. That’s still kind of absurd, really, especially with the wilted tech packed into it.
• Oculus Rift S – The Oculus Rift S is a bit cheaper than the Quest, making it about like a game console a couple of years into its lifespan. This isn’t a bad price for what you get, but it’s still a bit of purchase if you’re new to VR and not even sure how much you’ll enjoy the technology. For porn, honestly, you’re paying more than you need with this one too.
• Oculus Go – The Oculus Go is about like buying a game console from the previous generation right as the new generation comes out. It’s still an expense, but one most can manage, and not feel too awful at a loss if they wind up not even liking the experience. Considering the portability and lightweight, and factoring in the slight compromise in resolution and color reproduction, it’s still the best all-around deal.

Winner for Price: Oculus Go

Autonomy and Portability

We talked a little bit about portability before, but that’s just in the physical ease of taking the thing somewhere else and then hooking it back up. When we talk about autonomy and portability here, we mean the most compatibility, and the most free range of movement, configuration and personalization you can do.

Some VR is a limited implementation compared to other VR. We’ll be having two winners with this one as well, for different reasons.

• Pimax 5K – This one is a little complicated to connect to random systems, but its compatibility (provided the hardware can keep up with it) is fantastic, and while it may seem a little complex at first, it’s honestly pretty straightforward to set up. It’s also pretty durable. As far as autonomy, it has an excellent range of view, mobility, and it doesn’t handhold you if you don’t want it to, being about as flexible as any other interface once you dig into it.
• Oculus Rift – The quest is fragile, it’s bulky, and while it tries to be cordless, it’s really not. It’s also a bit dated internally, limiting range of view and requiring more software intervention to maintain a steady experience, limiting autonomy severely. The Quest has yet to win a comparison here. It’s almost like Oculus is trying to sell dated technology for a marked up price isn’t it? Nah, couldn’t be!
• Oculus Rift S – This one’s about what people expect VR to be by way of portability and autonomy, which is a middle of the line experience. It’s not very flexible for configuration and it does require a lot of drivers to be messed with. Provided every machine you want to use it with is properly set up, and you don’t mind some handholding and limitations in compatibility, it’s not the worst, but not a winner here.
• Oculus Go – The go is barebones, so you can’t do as much customization, but it also just either works or doesn’t, with the various things you try. It’s lightweight, durable, and basic enough that it’ll work with most modern things, and it doesn’t try to chime in and ruin the experience by mitigating it. This means things can go weird sometimes, but better that than menus arguing with you, right?

Winners for Autonomy and Portability: Pimax 5K XR and Oculus Go

And the Winner Is...

I had to really think about this for a minute because there were two clear contenders for the winner, and while I feel that image quality is very important, I also think that price being reasonable is crucial for the further adoption and refinement of VR. This technology is underutilized by erotica creators and game developers because it’s still a bit uncomfortable in many cases, and it’s very expensive for something with so little content.

With that in mind, my ultimate choice for the winner of this comparison has to be the Oculus. It beats out the Pimax by price and ease of use. Sure, its picture is subpar by comparison, and its post-processing is middle of the road, but it’s comfortable, it’s easy, its lack of mitigation means more things work for it, and it won’t break your bank. If you want to experience VR erotica, this may be a compromise on resolution, but not by as much as you might think.

The Oculus is for now the best VR headset for porn. Give it a try, it’ll be like discovering porn for the first time all over again!

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Testing & Customers Reviews

We found reviews from real YouTube bloggers about the products from our article.

techgurl: "Oculus Quest 2 feels light. It's a bit sturdy and to my opinion it's generally well built. You can control the Oculus interface pretty well with the hand tracking feature which means some specific gestures perform specific tasks. The adult entertainment is where the Oculus Quest 2 truly shines. May be a little hard for you to find high quality porn in the beginning but with Google help it is possible to get your hands on some amazingly crisp and immersively steamy 8K experiences. With stereo vision and sound this headset easily streams high quality from a local dlna server so you don't need to worry too much about quickly filling up the storage.

Oculus Quest brings porn video to a whole new level of realism. Some people may even find it overwhelming. Overall this is a great device with competitive market for all sorts of entertainment and everyone can find something they can enjoy. From my personal opinion is that it is off the hook and I'm gonna tell you why. When it comes to porn that will flip your mind. This device feels so real and sometimes it makes you forget that it's just a movie, a device on your eyes. No. It feels like you in there. Think about watching a movie with some type of food that makes you drool and you can feel it on your lips to the point when you want to lick it. Now you know what I'm talking about."

Growling Sidewinder: "I purchased a brand new computer a few months ago. I went all out on this thing. The best I could get. The intention was to create something that was not limited by hardware so I could get the best experience. Once I got it I obviously realized that my Oculus Rift S, a VR headset that I was very happy with at the time and I continue to think it's a good product, was starting to bottleneck my VR experience. So basically no matter how good my computer was it was always going to be limited by the virtual reality headset. So I did what I had to do and I got the best VR headset on the market at least at the time. The headset I got obviously was the Pimax Vision 8K X.

One of the major issues with the Oculus Rift S was its very limited field of view. You could literally see the black part of the VR set so you almost gave you a feeling of tunnel vision. With the Pimax with its increased field of view there is no way that you are getting that feeling. And one of the big questions that's a follow-up to the field of view question is what's going on around the edges? Is the image distorted? Is it fish lensed? I can say that it is ever so slightly distorted at the edges but you have to really look for it. You know you have to actually go and stare at it to see it. The other really big thing is the screen door effect that a lot of people talk about with virtual reality. In the Oculus Rift S the screen door effect is very visible you can see it very clearly in the Pimax headset you can see it again if you really look for it otherwise you can't see it. It's much much better than the Oculus Rift as obviously something I would expect considering the price range difference.

The other really important thing worth mentioning is the vibrance of the colors. I do find the Pimax headset to have beautiful and stunning colors. I'm very very pleased with that. Other VR headsets always made me feel a little bit washed out. Like the image was washed out. I don't get that feeling in the Pimax 8K. It feels and looks really really good. The image that I see in the actual virtual reality headset when I put it on is crisp it is clear. It definitely feels 4K. Overall my initial Pimax experience has been pretty good. Once you get past the first hurdle of getting your hands on all the equipment you'll need to actually get this thing going. Once you've sorted all that out the Pimax experience and virtual reality is actually pretty good. The resolution is good. The color is good. If you have a strong enough PC to run it at 4k it's a great experience. And dare I say it is what I've been waiting for when it comes to virtual reality. The experience I'm having is the best VR experience I've ever had and if you can swing the financial costs of it and you're looking to jump in deep into the VR world I highly recommend the Pimax headset."

The Tech Chap: "Oculus Go is definitely one of the most comfortable headsets I've used with easily adjustable velcro straps a breathable foam material around your eyes and a gray matte plastic shell for the rest of the body. There's a bit of a weight to it but it makes it feel more well built and it's also more evenly distributed. You don't need to use headphones as there's speakers built into the headphone band which gives a decent 3D sound experience and there's also a built-in microphone on the bottom of the headset so you can chat to people.

The first thing I noticed is the picture quality here is much closer to the more expensive Vive or Rift. In fact the Go uses newer second generation lenses which reduces glare and that pesky screen door effect. It's still there but combined with the 2560x1440 resolution LCD screen the Oculus Go actually delivers a higher resolution per eye than the Rift. So in terms of lenses and screen quality the Oculus Go is on par with VR devices two or three times more expensive. And I also just like the fact that there's no cables running over your shoulder. It's so easy just to put it on and get into virtual reality."

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