SexLikeReal Stroker in the making

Also games like VAM etc. need a streaming mode. The whole API point is just so you can connect to whatever you want. Use the toy for whatever you want. Especially important if what you want from your toy is something the toy maker is not interested in supporting.

Having a closed API is just super frustrating. Kinda like how SLR had to basically jailbreak the Keon to work with their platform.

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In my case I started designing these devices, sharing them online and people literally offered me money for the plans for how to build them. I’m privileged to have about 1,000 people backing me at the moment as I work on new and better - and easier to build - devices. If it’s something you want to get in to you shouldn’t wait for someone to give you permission to do it, just start creating stuff and sharing it. I’ll plug my own community as a great place to start.

The work on this device for SLR came off the back of my personal efforts. They’re a great bunch of people and I enjoy working with them. The demands for a commercially produced device are different to homebuild devices, but I’m confident that we have a mechanism that is next level.

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maybe not prevalently on LinedIn, but randomly on Omegle:

(sorry for OT :face_with_hand_over_mouth:)

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That’s great feedback, thanks!

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Definitely looking into games support

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No we don’t

Someone buys a piece of hardware and uses it - their own private property - as they please, without the intervention of a third party, and you call that bad?

No person with two brain cells to rub together should consider buying any hardware your company designs. You’ve made it abundantly clear that you see such hardware as nothing more than a tool to wedge open wallets with, to secure perpetual funding for what should be a one-time purchase.

It will be a door stop without paying your company a continual monthly fee. That is what a sane person calls bad.

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You don’t use an iPhone line that. Also tesla ha integrated spotify for a reason.

We have a choice to create our device for people we appreciate. It won’t be for everyone

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Oh yes, a completly independent device is just bad!
I hate modern capitalism.

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Just give the option to use the stroker without Internet access and also with other software than SLR. I’m also pretty sure that the majority of sex toy buyers don’t use their strokers/vibrators with scripts or letting someone else remote control it.

A more versatile device will simply have a broader audience and therefore sell to others than the limited group of SLR subscribers/users. Hopefully that is what you are planning even if it isn’t really clear in the answers so far.

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Think we have enough devices, thanks though.

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Most sex toys are at a diffirent level in costs vs features vs power. Synchronized content is a niche on its own. Im quite sure that a lot of launch or handy users never even connect it to the internet and just use the buttons.
(a diffirence to what you say as that still includes things like faptap and SLR being used which are just a convenience service and a great help to people)

These users should be excluded from the comparison as that is not the target audience. These users for devices generaly will only look at a few things: How strong is it, how easy is it to use, how quickly does it break? For these users even SLR videos themselve are meaningless.
But as long as you have some control outside of the internet, you can at least keep your device as a potential purchase. Which isnt a bad thing.

Download + a script player is the most basic and failproof way to ensure a device remains usable. And a use case that even for proper internet countries is still a thing.

Just imagine internet being down for a day. No youtube, netflix or anything, You are bored… guess which device might get its use now. Especialy with some local content. Thats why its essential.

It has nothing to do with DRM being a problem since its applied everywhere and seen as a norm these days, it has to do with the moment you will hate it most when it has DRM and it doesnt work when you most need it.

Its easy to prepare a few videos and scripts for internet outages. Not supporting it will feel like a massive restriction. Enough to rate your product 1/5 stars. And if you dont have anything prepared… it suddenly doesnt feel like a downside as thats your own mistake then. But if you know other devices can, yet the device you have cant, its that 1/5 star moment. Good luck losing a customer with a bad rating that will forever stick and guarantee you some extra lost sales (i would never buy such product myself - even when before i had the osr2).

Marketing isnt always about showing what your product can, its also about when it can, during times that are most anoying, where you are glad it works. That will make people happy, and its those times that will also cause people to post 5/5 ratings without even being required to ask them. Thats why DRM is a bad idea.

Note that even steam, which has DRM, does allow offline play for quite some time after you go offline, it still does the check occasionaly against abuse, but during a simple downtime, it at least still works. DRM here while being a restriction, at least doesnt hinder people.
And if properly configuired, will warn ahead of time when people are taking a risk. for example: a week before the token expires asking you to log in again to refresh it. Even the SLR firmware could have such system, and can be anoying for some. But if it works, and works during outages… whats the problem?

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Outages are rare these days. Things are created to enjoy in normal conditions.

Streaming is preferred way to get content for 80% of population for a reason.

Slr userbase is primarily streaming and we primarily target it. Downloaders are a very small percentage that is going even further down as new users come in.

It’s also true that one streaming user is more appreciated than 10 non streaming. It’s all streaming these days :fire:
Kinda obvious choice. We all live in the cloud now

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Big L take

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In this bizarre election year, I have learned people make their own minds up about things and once that’s happened, nothing changes their opinion. I don’t expect anything to change here. DeoVR is a fine app for streaming and @doublevr has done a great job with it. But we’re just not ever going to agree about hosting local content and privacy so I won’t be buying one (and that makes me the sort that doesn’t appreciate his efforts despite what I just said in the previous sentence I would guess.

I do wonder why a sex toy needs to phone home ever other than firmware updates which could be pull rather than push. And my suspicious mind can only come up with something ranging from searching for “pirated” scripts to uploading the scripts to improve his script AI. The EULA here will make good reading.

There’s no good reason for a sex toy to require phoning home other than you’re up to mischief and shenanigans of some sort. But, also, I know there’s no changing anyone’s minds about anything because that’s just not how it works, so let’s agree to disagree?

Unless you want economy in your product… How many SLR users are there? How many of those are going to buy a new stroker and choose the SLR stroker? That number must pay for the entire venture unless this product is a way of boost other sales. Compare with how Meta Quest, Playstation, Xbox etc. are sold basically without profit or even at a loss. Revenue for those comes from other sales.

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I think if eventually you get a solid multi axis device that can be mass produced that will really take things to the next level. Looking forward to seeing what you guys develop

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A second movement axis - twist - is planned for the second gen device. Some of my best work I think has gone into that concept, so I really hope we get to take it forward.

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This was a bit of a word salad, but i’ll chime in.

An Iphone lets you install and use the apps you want. Dont like spotify? Good, there are alternatives like pandora, amazon music, apple music, sound cloud, YT music, etc. They created a device for their customers, and despite having music streaming services themselves they allow you to use that device like you want.

And as for Tesla integrating Spotify. Spotify paid for that. They paid Tesla to be a stream lined included app in the hope that tesla customers would use their service over others. And despite this, you can still install other streaming apps, just like an Iphone.

Butt SLR is different. They continue to do things that are unfriendly to consumers. Every month it seems like another change is made to try to lock you into their ecosystem. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised at this point if you introduced your own VR headset that is just a quest 3 with a custom OS that only connects to SLR. This is why I cancelled my slr sub, because it’s value just continues to be whittled down to nothing. I don’t trust your company to not make choices which are bad for my investment. Seeing how you’ve run things I have no doubt in my mind that a few months after your toy gets released you’ll start making tweaks to funscripts so they won’t even work with other toys, let alone your toys with other services.

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