Brian
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the future of sex toys? What you have done with the Vaccuglide 2 is game changing. I’m sure you are thinking of things you might not want to share in an open forum. Any hints at what you envision the future to look like would be awesome. It’s going to be bright!
Pretty clear for me it will bring the same as in all other electronics : Sensors and automation and data collection.
Maybe you are able to tell by body parametrics how close the user is to orgasm or sense the blood pressure to adjust the level of vacuum.
In terms of ideas for a third version; being able to connect to 3G/4G to get rid of the requirement for Wifi would be making the device a great travel companion.
Thanks. I’m happy that you are enjoying it, and yes, it is only a new starting point for us.Even though I’ve been doing this for eighteen years, the level of device that has become possible for us to invent has seen a rapid increase in functionality and quality level in the past couple of years. We realize that our fun.autoblow.com platform can now work as a platform to launch other machines from. That is what we plan on doing, but of course not focusing on existing stimulation methods, instead inventing new ones.
I can’t share the exact details of our R&D pipeline, but I can say that it has never been this full of inventions, and that it does involve biofeedback as a method of controlling devices.
Last year, I obtained a couple of patents in this area as well.
Also, about five years ago, we were the first to ever roll out speech control of a sex toy. The control available to us at that time using II was fairly rudimentary compared to what is available today. We ended up removing the feature because it was not very used. You had to use very specific commands, and the accuracy was only about 80%.
We plan to roll that back into our future product development at some point.
Overall, it’s our goal to make these machines something you communicate with as you would with another person. You see them less as a machine and more as a kind of assistant and can speak to them as you would speak with ChatGPT or Claude.
That pertains to the AI girlfriends/boyfriends and also general machine and other control.
Finally, we will continue to move in the direction of synced VR videos. Currently, we offer 21 free videos and are syncing 20 more from real VR, but we are also going to acquire some free videos from SLR and from other VR studios.
As people ask us for features, we have to offer them under the limitation of them being free to use for our machine owners. As AI progresses, certain features will become less expensive to offer, and we can offer them for free. Certain ones may become more expensive, and we will not be able to offer them for free.
Our driving force is to provide the best experience once you purchase a machine, with the best technological features and enhancements, while keeping our ongoing costs limited. A couple of years ago, we had about a $0 monthly bill after a customer purchased something from us. Now we have a five-figure monthly bill to support all of the free functionality that we offer.
That is fine. As long as we are selling enough to support that, we are happy to do so. There is also some figuring out we have to do to make sure we are offering the right features at the right cost so we can make them as widely available as possible.
I’m not saying “never” to putting a price on some kind of premium feature if the feature is good enough and costs a lot. I can say that we would only do that if a feature really costs a lot (in terms of AI model usage) and is really, really impactful.
Regarding physical sensations, we have three new devices planned that should offer something that others don’t. Stay tuned, and know that you can count on us for pushing the limits of physical sensation and AI as it relates to your pleasure.
We, in fact, do have something like that in our pipeline. Regarding upcoming versions, we would not be able to put a mobile modem inside.But you realize that you can connect this to a hot spot, right, or your phone used as a hot spot?You would need another device to control the machine if your phone is being used as the hotspot. You would need an additional iPad or laptop, but you can connect our machines to your own hotspot.
I did not realize you can use the mobile hotspot, thank you for pointing this out.
Biofeedback sounds interesting and I am glad to hit your R&D pipeline with my idea and will be interested what will come some day. How long is the design cycle time for a new toy ?
Normally, it takes two years to put a new piece of hardware on the market.Something that’s like a half version, or has some similar parts, functions, PCB, or concept, where we maybe upgrade only part of a product, wee could get away with maybe 16 to 18 months.
The nice thing is, now that fun.autoblow.com is so developed, we are able to share it with any new device launch.