POVR Review: The Best POV Experience in VR?
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POVR is a VR porn site that acts as a sort of aggregator of all the available VR porn content on the Internet.
With an intriguing backstory in mind, POVR.com fills a particular need in the VR porn landscape.
Until now there has never been a VR porn website that aggregates all the available content into one easy-to-navigate site.
POVR.com is a freemium porn site but emphasizes premium content. It gives you a broad selection of options for your desktop or mobile VR setup.
As part of your VR porn ecosystem, how does POVR add up? Stick around and find out!
About POVR
POVR is one of the newest VR porn websites on the Internet. It’s also an extremely ambitious one.
With over 20,000 videos, over 4,900 porn stars and 83 studios, they advertise that they have every VR porn video ever made.
It’s a point in their favor that they deliver a comprehensive array of VR content, starting with 4K and up, making their premium offerings the widest array of all types of VR porn content.
VR Content
Just as the title of the website indicates, it focuses on VR content, and POV content, which is a great specialty for VR.
If you want to experience how it feels to have the best POV VR content at your fingertips on your favorite VR device, make sure to bookmark POVR.
The best VR content tends to focus on point-of-view and cock.
This isn’t to say that there isn’t any content on POVR.com that’s targeted at women, but that woman-focused content isn’t most of the site’s content, so being aware of that limitation is important when you sign up.
Variety of Models
POVR’s models mostly tend to the conventionally “porn-star” attractive women. So, if you’re a consumer of mainstream porn, POVR is going to suit you just fine.
Their selection of models is all thin and pretty, with transgender models having a serious bias toward Asian “Ladyboy” content.
None of this is a real strike against POVR, but it does say what their expected business case is.
If you’re looking for alternative models, women with tattoos, lesbians, or even Western trans women, your pickings are going to be a little slim.
POVR having trans models at all outside of a trans-focused site like TransVR is worth noting, even if the model selection is a little bit on the thin-pickings side.
POVR’s business model, in short, centers conventional content done well.
If you’re looking for VR porn content written around other preferences, you should probably look elsewhere, because your tastes aren’t going to be catered to here.
Again, I want to emphasize that this isn’t a strike against the site, just a note that you should have a pretty good idea what you’re paying for before you put your money down.
Freemium Model, Premium Content
How does it work? Freemium content, as we know, is a site that has a mix of free content and premium, paywalled content.
POVR emphasizes its premium offerings over free ones. If you’re looking for free VR files to “try before you buy,” this site doesn’t offer that.
Most of the site’s content, including all the actual VR content, is gated behind the Premium paywall.
So, if you’re interested in premium, 6K, 7K or above resolution VR porn, you are going to need to sign up for Premium.
POVR’s front page positions it as the “Netflix of VR Porn,” and there’s some validity there. The site is a great option to aggregate most of the available VR porn in one site.
It doesn’t really act as a PornHub for VR porn content, because there’s no freely available VR content that you can use before you sign over your card information for a purchase, and the trial period (a mere two days) is on the short side – most websites give you a 7-day trial before dunning your credit card, making POVR’s two days seem a little stingy.
Signing Up for Premium
Fortunately, signing up for premium is a simple process.
Once you enter your favorite payment processing service, including cryptocurrency if you swing that way, you’re ready to go at checkout.
Once that’s done, the entire video archive of the site is available to you.
VR videos are primarily available by download, which makes sense when you consider how breathtakingly huge, they are – streaming a file of the size of your average VR file simply does not work over any but the most uninhibited gigabyte Internet connection.
Content Search
The content search function on the site is a little bit rudimentary.
While with some clever search engine tactics you can certainly get your preferred content front and center, the advanced search features are a little bit lacking, and with over 20,000 videos to sort through, there might be a little bit of a learning curve before you’re consistently finding the videos that appeal most to you.
On the plus side, 20,000 videos are a lot of content that you can sort through, and you’re sure to find things that you didn’t think were going to appeal to you before you saw them.
It’s not as easy to search POVR as it is to search famous 2D mega site Pornhub, which also runs on a Freemium model but has much more of its content outside the premium paywall and encourages community content.
It would be helpful for POVR to offer keyword-based search filtering, and hopefully that’s an update to their site interface still to come, but as of right now, searching needs some refinement and a searcher who understands how to form search queries to winnow down the content flood into something a little more manageable.
Help Files
POVR’s technical help files, unfortunately, fall down a little bit on the job.
To help with VR headsets (and this is understandable) they offload that portion of technical support on a general-use VR site, VRHelpNow.com.
This keeps them from having to do technical support for VR headsets, but it does limit their utility.
VRHelpNow is sponsored by three other VR porn sites, TranzVR, MilfVR and WankzVR, but does include POVR-specific files, so they’re at least about doing a good job on this.
Still, the lack of specific local tech support is, in my opinion, a hindrance for POVR.
The same applies with their billing support site, a concern if you’re interested in a site that robustly supports its clients.
Off-site support is simply always going to be less supportive than support that’s employed by the main site employer, and outsourcing your tech support is an issue for any website, but especially one that handles data for people’s porn watching habits.
A porn site should be as secure as it can possibly be made, and any time your data is passing outside their walled garden, you’re at risk.
So, until they make a serious effort to bring their tech support in-house, that will need to be in your risk appetite.
Frequently asked questions
Online porn sites often have some issues that are specific to them, especially sites that serve specific porn interests like VR porn, and we’re going to do our best to shed light on POVR for you now.
VR Device Downloading: How Does that Work?
Downloading content off the site to a thumb drive that plugs into the VR headset makes a lot of sense for files this big.
It saves bandwidth, but you’ll gain an appreciation for how incredibly large VR files tend to be when you do it. Make sure you have a big hard drive because you’ll see the gigabytes disappear quickly.
POVR.com makes no pretenses of even trying to allow 8K VR files to stream off their servers. This is probably for the best, as the bandwidth bills would undoubtedly undermine their business model.
How did POVR get such a To-the-point URL?
One of the hardest things on the Internet after nearly 30 years of online websites is finding an available four-letter URL that hasn’t already been taken. Yet somehow, POVR.com managed this.
Somehow, the URL has been registered since 2004, making it one of the longest delays from URL registration to site opening in 2023 that you can find anywhere.
When POVR was registered back in the mid-2000s, it might have seemed like some garbage acronym that would never find use, and yet the site is open now.
What is the compatibility list for POVR?
POVR’s compatibility list, according to its own help pages, includes Oculus/Meta devices, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard/Daydream systems.
POVR does not offer their own branded headset at any compatibility level, so if you are new to VR, be sure to pick up a Google Cardboard-compatible phone headset to be able to view the site.
POVR is permissive in terms of compatibility, and the fact that you have a headset that isn’t on their compatibility list is not a blocking issue for the site, but it is one that you may have to deal with.
What other sites are Out There?
POVR is a site like PornHub in that it’s run on a Freemium model.
Unlike a lot of VR porn sites, it does have some full videos on the free side of things, but the videos on POVR, like many on PornHub, are more of short promos for longer premium videos, both on the site and off.
Unlike PornHub, there is no content that reflects the primary draw of the site in the free part of the site.
Outside of the realm of freemium sites (and POVR is only questionably a freemium site due to its use of 2D previews as its only free content), WankzVR not only links into a wider network of sites but also has a wide array of internal options, giving viewers the chance to find different files to their liking.
Virtual Real Porn and Naughty America VR both have strong options that run a little bit beyond mainstream for people who like to get outside of that content area.
One of the problems of “aggregator” type sites that shows up on POVR is that while the content tends to cast a wider net, it can also get overwhelming, and the fact that porn is a genre that’s heavily dominated by mainstream (i.e., male) tastes, it’s going to be harder to find the right subjects.
So, if you’re looking to get a site that caters to your tastes, once you know what those tastes are, it’s probably better overall to find the site that matches your desires and subscribe to that directly, rather than spend the money on an aggregator site that has everything – unless your taste is “everything.”
Pros
- The widest variety of VR porn content online.
- Almost every video has a free trailer.
- The models on the site are gorgeous.
- Such a wide net of content means there’s likely to be something for everyone.
- Site includes content types not often included in general-purpose VR porn sites.
- Advertised content of 4,900 models and over 20,000 videos means that you will never run out of VR content to watch.
Cons
- Site does not have the bandwidth to stream its content. It recommends downloading all your content before viewing.
- Trailers on the site are universally in 2d, limiting the content that you can view in VR without a pass.
- A 2-day trial on a subscription seems oddly stingy.
- Models trend strongly toward the conventional end of the pool. If tattoos are a plus for you, you’re not likely to find them here.
- If you’re interested in alternative porn models, WLW-focused content, or other content that isn’t quite in the mainstream, your selection is smaller than for mainstream porn.
- Tech support for the site is outsourced. Although the offsite tech support is from an AV-focused provider, it still represents a potential security leak if you’re concerned about the security of your porn viewing.
Verdict
POVR has a lot to recommend it, but there are also some things that you’re going to need to watch out for.
It mostly emphasizes its premium offerings, making it more of a premium site with limited free options.
It aggregates content from around the Internet, bringing a lot of interesting VR content to the front and reducing your overall subscription fees.
There are a few drawbacks that need to be addressed, like the outsourced tech support and the fact that its previews are exclusively traditional video files.
POVR has room to improve but it has a lot to offer.
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