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Teledildonics takes a step: OhMiBod and Second Life (corrected)

September 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It seems like someone picked up the calendar by February and tilted it so that all sex-tech events fell into September: this Saturday in particular. I can’t get up to San Francisco for Arse Elektronika after all, for a variety of personal reasons (and I’m very sorry about that, I hate to miss you), but because the live celebration of the OhMiBod / Second Life interface is happening in Los Angeles, I will be able to go to that.

The live party is at a private house and I’m not in charge of the guest list, but you can attend in Second Life, at Sextoy Daves Party Place in Eros the North Pole, home of Virtually Adult.* They’re doing all those Hollywood Lifestyle things (live and virtual), with strippers and celebrities and giveaways and DJs and swimming pools, but the important thing is the OhMiBod / Second Life HUD is finally out of NDA and that means I can talk about it.

For now, I’ll stick with the press release description, as I haven’t seen it in action (and Brian and Kevin, why haven’t I, hrmmmmm?).

The new interface uses a specially designed heads-up display (HUD) to control OhMiBod technology virtually. Players can get the HUD for free at Strokerz Toyz and VirtuallyAdult (two adult stores within Second Life) as well as at virtual social events sponsored by the OhMiBod Squad.

Once activated, the OhMiBod HUD allows the player to create music to affect the patterns of vibration, as well as control the intensity of those vibrations. Back in the real world, the OhMiBod also reacts to the music played at virtual events, where avatar DJs spin music at raves, parties, and nightclubs.

I’m not very good at publicly documenting things while I experience them, although my thorough test of the horrible Blowguard — a blowjob accessory so awful I didn’t even publish my response to it — proves that I can take pages and pages of notes with old-fashioned pens and paper while actually, er, testing.

But I’m going to ask my companions to remind me to twitter the OhMiBod demo if I have cell service up there. My Tweets aren’t public so you’ll have to request to follow me by, oh, noon on Saturday, so that I can approve you (and I won’t be hurt if you un-follow after the event, no commitment expected, heh).

*Correction from the organizers: SexToyDaves Party Place isnt on Eros, it is at the North Pole, home of Virtually Adult. This is also where we will premiere the brand new Virtual Vending system that allows you to purchase real life products using virtual currency, in this case Lindens. What this does as you can see, is allows anyone in a virtual world to be anonymous with their purchase history, much like the plain brown wrapper!

Tags: games · hardware · software

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 FlipperPA // Sep 25, 2008 at 11:41 am

    I’m really looking forward to this. My company helped out with quite a bit of this project, and wow, was it interesting. Not only did I hear the word “dildo” multiple times during a business conference call, but VirtuallyAdult is doing a few virtual world firsts here. Just wait until you see the new vendors!

  • 2 regina lynn // Sep 26, 2008 at 10:20 am

    Wait, doesn’t everyone toss out “dildo” in business conference calls? *confused*