A new vest that allows you to feel over 30 different sensations while taking part in a virtual reality (VR) experience has got us wondering about its potential in the sextech field. Created by the Spanish tech company OWO Game, the device is billed as a ‘haptic vest’ – haptic meaning related to touch. The […]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT is set to reach a new stage of evolution this week (beginning March 13, 2023), when it is expected to roll out a function that will allow ChatGPT video and images to be created through simple text prompts. GPT-4, the underlying language model technology powering ChatGPT, is expected to be […]
A deepfake ‘x-ray vision’ app that algorithmically undressed photos of women was taken down by its creator last week. Users of the $50 DeepNude app could upload a photo of a clothed woman and an algorithm would impose realistic-looking breasts and vulva onto the image. In other words, this means that even someone who had […]
2023 is rapidly becoming the year of the AI chatbot companion. This trend ranges from Replika users nearly rebelling when the app’s ‘erotic mode’ was briefly threatened, to a multitude of influencers creating articulate AI versions of themselves. An AI chatbot companion comes in the form of a virtual person you can chat to, usually […]
Apple and Meta have recently unveiled their new mixed reality headsets, marking a significant milestone in the VR and augmented reality (AR) sectors. This development is not only expected to revolutionize the tech industry but also holds the potential to significantly influence our personal lives, including our sexual relationships. Apple’s first headset, the Vision Pro, […]
As more artificially intelligent companions – those with an ‘adult’ function and those without – flit around the promised horizon of our near-future lives, there’s at least one inescapable challenge ahead for the companies building these products: how to keep them updated without upsetting your users. While you might argue that’s a challenge any software-based […]
Should an artificially intelligent sex robot have the right to refuse consent? Our ancestors never had to worry about such things as the ethical dilemmas of sextech. We’ve made sex uniquely difficult for ourselves as a species, and we’re laser-focused on making it more and more difficult for ourselves every day. There’s a weird kind […]
This is a bit of an unusual post on SEXTECHGUIDE, as we normally focus on news, reviews and everything else in the world of sextech from other companies, but today, we’re going to focus on us for a little bit. To not bury the lede, let’s quickly address the ‘news’ part of this post: SEXTECHGUIDE’s […]
A while ago some social japester on social media quipped that millennial dating is basically recommending podcasts to each other until one of you dies. The latest potential conversation-extender is a documentary-style mini-series about the Magic Wand vibrator. The Making Magic podcast has been created by journalist and author Kate Sloan, who specializes in writing […]
For a long time in India, talking openly about sex was seen as shameful, says Shweta Sangtani, the co-founder of Sangya Project in an interview with Bloomberg back in 2022. “The very phrase ‘sex toy’ is taboo.” However, times are changing, and sex tech in India is being led by companies that are boldly challenging […]
One of the biggest challenges the VR porn industry faces is the relatively low mainstream adoption rate of VR headsets in homes. However, an indicator that VR porn is in fact becoming more normalized came recently, when a new UK sperm bank announced that rather than offering donors just magazines or video content, VR porn […]
