U.S. Lags Behind In 5G Development; Could Be Bad News For VR Porn (AVN)

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With porn expected to be the third-largest virtual reality market sector within seven years, according to The New York Times,  and PornHub reporting a year-on-year 275 percent increase of VR porn views on its site, virtual reality technology appears to shaping up as major driver of growth in the adult industry.

But one roadblock to that growth could turn out to be the United States telecommunications infrastructure, which according to new statistics published by the data site Statista, lags behind competing countries by a significant margin when it comes to developing 5G networks, which experts say are essential to making VR a viable technology for consumers.

“It is a widely understood fact that we cannot welcome AR [i.e. augmented reality] and VR without 5G,” writes Forbes Magazine technology reporter Daniel Newman.

To give an example of the capabilities of 5G, “you could download 20 movies over 5G in the time it takes to download one in 4G from a peak speed perspective,” according to Statista.