Watching porn is a lot of fun. Using sex toys is also a lot of fun. Since some toys are able to automatically move for you, a logical next step would be if they were able to mimic the actions on your screen or headset as this would make the experience much more immersive. The good news is, it’s more than possible, and it’s getting better, easier and faster year by year! To understand how all of this works we need to see what the difference is between interactive and non-interactive content.

How do toys know what to do?

When it comes to interactive videos the “interactive” part is perhaps easiest to imagine just like subtitles. In this case instead of words, these subtitles contain data that can be interpreted by sex toys. They most often contain stroke length and speed information, or more precisely: at what percentage of the toy’s movement range should the mechanics be positioned at, at what millisecond. Something like: “{“pos”:5,”at”:59559},{“pos”:95,”at”:60493},{“pos”:5,”at”:61428},{“pos”:95,”at”:62362}”. This means the action starts at around the one minute mark, and it starts doing almost full length strokes up and back down, going up takes about 0.9 seconds and then going back down takes another 0.9 seconds. So we start with slow and steady full strokes.

Since there are many different toys with many different capabilities such as vibrations by one or more motors, thrusting, stroking with length and speed there’s different levels to how immersive your experience can get. It also comes down to the specific toy if it’s compatible with interactive services and players or not, and if it is, it’s also up to the manufacturer how the ‘subtitles’ (called scripts in the rest of this article) translate to features of the toy. A good example is the Pulse Solo Interactive. It can only vibrate, nothing else, so it actually translates the stroke position data to vibration intensity. This way even though you’ll be responsible for stroking if you want that kind of stimulation, at least some level of immersivity is achieved by the vibration intensity matching the actions you see on the screen.

How are scripts created? Can anybody create them?

So this seems easy enough, why couldn’t you write your own subtitles for your own videos? You absolutely can! But before you launch notepad and start typing away, know that there are much easier and faster methods to do this. There are many types of graphical interfaces (most of them free) dedicated to help an enthusiastic community to create scripts as easy as possible. With these you can easily create and then modify or fine-tune scripts. If you feel like there’s a delay and the sync between the video and your script isn’t perfect you can easily add/subtract delays in milliseconds. If you want to make a version that’s half the intensity you can do that too. You can even choose between ‘half the intensity’ meaning half the stroke length or half the pace. If you’re more a fan of moving a mouse “up and down” there are tools for that too, even using blender. If you’re into tinkering, or if you’re thinking about making lots of scripts, it is quite possible to make a dedicated hardware (using a raspberry pi and a 3D printer) where you can ‘stroke’ a rod watching a video and create your script that way. These all make the whole process less labor intensive, but it’ll still be work.

Whether you’re enthusiastic about creating scripts or you just enjoy having access to a lot of them there’s a quite big chance that the larger percentage of your favorite videos won’t have any scripts for them yet. If there is a longer video that you really love it might be worth it to create your own script for it with some elbow grease, but if you’re anything like me, you quite probably won’t go into that much trouble for every video you’d like to enjoy with an interactive toy.

Automating the most labor intensive part

Hold on! We have AI everywhere now with ChatGPT and the likes of writing all kinds of text content, and others creating images and now videos. Couldn’t we just train an AI model to write scripts for videos instead? Oh we absolutely can. And it’s already available! FeelmeAI is a service with which you can enjoy any video on the supported platforms and it turns it interactive by using AI. Even better, this AI model is so fast you don’t have to request a video to be analyzed and wait for the results. It can do it on the fly, so you just pick any video and as long as you have your browser extension active and your toy connected, the fun starts immediately. Thanks to it being this fast, there’s another feature that would be completely impossible with manual scripts and that is turning live cam feeds interactive! Yepp, you can now watch your favorite streamers on chaturbate, stripchat or other supported cam sites and enjoy your toy reacting to the actions on the screen.

Of course in some videos or live streams there can be weird angles, the view being obstructed, or in case of group scenes involving more than just two people there can be a mismatch between which person you focus on and which person the AI model thinks is the ‘main’ actor. But even with these properties specific to AI video analyzers, the possibilities they open up are quite amazing! I’ve been using and testing the service for quite a long time and the accuracy is pretty good, especially if you’re watching a video that’s not an ultrafast compilation cutting between scenes every few seconds. As long as it has stable enough scenes, the AI picks up on the action quite fast and syncs your toy really well.

Conclusion: Pleasure, unleashed

Now that you have all of this information you can dive straight into the world of a more immersive experience. The fastest way to do so is choosing one of the subscriptions and packages on FeelMe and leaving the rest to AI and if you have more specific needs you can always fine-tune the experience or go full-on custom with the knowledge you just gained about manual script creation.