Ela Darling
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| Occupations | librarian, pornographic film actor, entrepreneur |
| Known for | virtual reality entrepreneur |
Ela Darling is an American pornographic actress and co-founder of virtual reality company VRTube.xxx.[1][2][3] According to The New York Times, Darling first used virtual reality technology to record an erotic scenario in 2014.[4]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Darling earned a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Illinois,[5] and worked as a reference librarian prior to becoming an actor and entrepreneur.[1]
Darling has been a speaker at several conferences focused on virtual reality.[6] She was also one of the individuals profiled in Allan Amato's 2016 book Slip: Naked in Your Own Words.[7]
In 2014,[8] she started VRTUBE.XXX and has been considered a pioneer and an entrepreneur in the industry of Virtual Reality erotica;[9] an industry that was projected in 2018 to grow to $1 billion (USD) by 2020.[10]
In 2016, Darling was presented with the Free Speech Coalition Positive Image Award.[11]
At the 2016 South by Southwest Festival, The Guardian quoted Darling asserting that patent holders were preventing the production of teledildonic technology.[6] In October 2017 comments Darling made about how sex robots would affect the erotic film industry were widely repeated.[12]
In a 2017 profile of Darling, Rolling Stone magazine described Darling's first experience filming a VR experience.[2]
Darling won the 2018 XBIZ Award for "Crossover Star of the Year".[13]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ela Darling at the Internet Adult Film Database
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- Living people
- American businesspeople in the entertainment industry
- American pornographic film actresses
- American women company founders
- American company founders
- American entertainment company founders
- Pornographic film actors from Texas
- Virtual reality pioneers
- University of Illinois alumni
- 21st-century American librarians
- 21st-century American women librarians