Things don’t change much in the Adult Webcam world, it seems there are cycles and fluctuations but the basics are still the same as they were 10 years ago.  One of the perpetual themes is attempts to make the whole webcam sex experience more “realistic”, to bring it closer to an actual real life sexual encounter.

In a way you can consider that live webcam chat is itself a development where technology has made its predecessors more realistic.  And by those predecessors I am talking about phone sex, or text chat cyber sex.  Both of these have many adherents and indeed there are still people who prefer their online sex to be either audio or written only.  As they say, I prefer radio as the colors are so much clearer!  And equally that sexy dominatrix or the cute 18 year old nypho may be more convincing in audio only phone sex than on a live webcam where you can see a perhaps too clear image of your partner in virtual sex.

For those who want to go to the latest in realism though then first grainy Logitech webcams, and later Sony handycams plugged into video capture cards, gave us our first real time look at the girl (or boy) we have been paying to chat with.

Cam2cam added an illusion of two way interaction, while live audio took away the need for typing skills.  That then was the state of the online sex chat nation for some time but now this looks boring and a new push is happening.

“HD” came first, probably at IFriends, and didn’t mean very much other than it was “good quality video”.  Real technical progress in video streaming gave live TV quality, and better, experiences on a few sites.  But many of them have since dropped it due to cost and lack of benefit.

There have been flirtations with 3D but it is still in the red/blue cardboard glasses stage and not going to win any awards.  LiveJasmin has kept trying this and is probably the online 3d webcam chat leader, as it is indeed the leader in many areas, but with less than twenty performers offering 3d at a time there is limited choices and limited benefits.  Unless you are a big tit fan and want to see huge melons hanging out of the screen at you I would give this particular idea and miss.  Come back in 10 years time I’d say.

The latest and greatest attempt and additional realism is the virtual sex offered over at vsex.com which I reviewed a while back.

It is a great idea; girls have a fucking machine in the room with them and when you are in a private chat you get a remote control that lets you well, control, the fucking machine.  You want to fuck her fast, then turn up the speed.  You want to tease her with a gentle rub, then do that too.  After you have fucked the girl by remote – and boy is it remote, we are talking from your mouse, to your screen, to the internet, to her PC, to her f-machine – then she gets to “score” you to see how well you did.  Yes, the keep a public leader-board so everybody knows who has the high score!

So is this site working and taking over the world?  Is it jumping leaps and bounds up the Google Trends chart?  Is it raking in income and supporting the poor deprived cam girls of the world with hard earned cash?  Sadly, no, the answer seems to be not.

Why not you may ask?  Well that’s a good question and the answer as far as I can see is a lack of girls who actually want to use a fucking machine on themselves for a few bucks a minute.  I mean come on, that’s getting personal now!  Because you know what has been lost here?  It’s the illusion – webcam is about an illusion of having that perfect girlfriend, the one who is not only hot and wants to fuck at the drop of a hat (or more logically, at the drop of some underwear) but also sympathises with you about your bitch wife and your monster boss.  Or your monster wife and your bitch boss as the case may be.

Adult webcam is all about fantasy – the girlfriend you can’t get, or don’t have time to manage in real life, who is on when you need her when you want her.  It isn’t really about penetration and making her cum.  It’s about making you the viewer feel contented.  And that’s what the best webcam girls can do, and they don’t need fucking machines, 3D, HD, nor any kind of D.  In fact, they could probably do it over the phone.