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] 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.

[10] 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.