Lovense Unveils "Control Me" - Two-Way Interactive Toy Control For Cam Shows

For the better part of a decade, interactive cam toys have worked in a fairly predictable way.

You tip, her toy buzzes. You tip more, it buzzes harder.

The whole tip-to-vibrate economy - the thing that basically turned Lovense into a verb on Chaturbate - runs on viewers pressing the button and models doing the reacting.

Lovense's new "Control Me" feature points the remote the other way.

Announced on 24 June 2026, this fancy new integration lets the model take control of a toy worn by the viewer, which, as you might imagine, has some rather profound implications for an 'interactive' cam show.

Control Me, Explained

Before we get mixed up, let's point out that "Control Me" is the consumer label.

In Lovense's own developer docs, the feature is called Take Control, and it lives inside the Lovense Cam Extension - the same browser tool models already use to wire tips to vibrations. This isn't a new gadget, as such.

It's a software feature that works with the Lovense toys people already own.

How it works:

The viewer connects their toy through Lovense's Vibemate app, then tips a set amount to unlock an invitation.

The model receives a request and can accept or decline - consent baked into the UX, which we'll come back to - and if she accepts, she gets an on-screen panel to drive his toy for a set number of minutes. Pricing is whatever the model sets per minute, and she can discount it (or hand it over free) in private shows.

There also appears to be a group mode. Which suggests that with just one click, a model can fire a single pattern to every connected toy in the room at once.

Like some kind of Sex Goddess.

Nice!

Lovense is pitching this as an open invitation to run group edging shows... with the incentive that models can bank some extra cash, by dropping referral links to sell toys to their viewers.

It's quite a clever system, but hold on....

Haven't Sex Toys Done This for Years?

Bueno...

Yes.

Two-way, long-distance toy control is not exactly a new gimmick.

If we go back, Lovense launched the popular Max and Nora devices back in 2013 and marketed them, at the time, as the first toys to support bi-directional control. Couples and long-distance lovers have been driving each other's devices across continents ever since.

In fact, Lovense Remote already has a Control Link feature for cam performers - you can hand literally anyone a link to control your toy, with no app ownership required on their end - plus there's a "Control Roulette" mode that lets strangers take the pleasure wheel for a timed burst.

It's true that a model who wanted to control a fan's toy today, outside any cam platform, could already do it with a shared link, and we do hear anecdotally of this happening via services like SkyPrivate, which are designed to flourish outside of an actual cam site.

Lovense isn't the only option in town, either.

Kiiroo's FeelConnect ecosystem - which also powers OhMiBod - has performer-facing apps and its own share-control model.

So what's new about Control Me?

The packaging.

Lovense has basically taken a control direction that already existed and wired it into the cam room's tipping flow - gated behind a tip, initiated by the model, priced by the minute, with a group-blast button bolted on top.

Will It Work Off The Shelf?

For this feature to catch on, it has to actually be integrated on the top cam sites.

The model side is easy - it runs through the Cam Extension she's probably already using, so that part is effectively platform-agnostic.

The viewer side is the problem.

For anyone to control a device attached to a viewer's body, the platform itself has to embed Lovense's viewer-side code (a "Cam JDK" plus a separate viewer SDK), render a pairing QR code inside its own video player, and wire all of it to its tipping system.

Lovense hands over the kit... but somebody at each cam site has to actually install it.

Control Me is not a switch performers can flip on a platform that hasn't done the integration.

Every site has to build it.

So which sites will bother?

If we has to pick first movers, we need only look at the sites with existing Lovense integration depth.

The likeliest fast-movers are the platforms already running the deepest tip-to-vibrate plumbing - Chaturbate, Stripchat, CamSoda, BongaCams, MyFreeCams and Cam4 - the same names that tend to top our cam site comparisons.

Stripchat in particular has already shipped in-room toy-control features, which makes it the obvious bellwether.

A second tier - Flirt4Free, Jerkmate, ImLive - support Lovense, but with more legwork involved, and Flirt4Free has historically leaned on Kiiroo/OhMiBod rather than Lovense anyway.

Then there's LiveJasmin, the awkward one.

It runs its own interactive-toy system and explicitly tells models not to pair through the Lovense apps - which makes a Lovense-powered Control Me rollout there unlikely unless LiveJasmin builds its own version from scratch.

For XCams, CameraPrive and Cherry.tv, there's no confirmed path at all yet.

Lovense says it ran "multiple" private test rounds - but it hasn't named where these were carried our, so we're curious to see what happens next.

JOI, Femdom And The Edging Crowd

Strip away the hype and there is a real prize.

And an obvious genre of camming where we'd expect two-way toys to do very, very well.

JOI - jerk-off instruction - has always been a verbal art.

The performer tells you when to stroke, when to slow, when to stop, and the whole thing depends on you choosing to obey.

Control Me could be a game changer here.

Instruction becomes actuation.

She isn't telling you to slow down anymore; she's doing it.

For femdom and tease-and-denial, it's the entire fantasy made literal. "I decide when you're allowed" stops being roleplay the moment she's the one holding the panel.

And the group edging button is the same idea, scaled to a room.

It's easy to see how models could upsell two-way interaction in both one-to-one and one-to-many show formats.

Will It Catch On?

One obvious problem stands between Control Me and any kind of mainstream traction.

To be on the receiving end, a viewer needs to own a compatible Lovense toy, install Vibemate, pair it, and be watching on a platform that has actually integrated the feature. That's a hell of a funnel.

The average tipper isn't sitting there wearing juiced-up hardware - so the realistic market is the slice of viewers already invested enough to buy in.

Cleverly, Lovense is incentivising models to help SELL the devices to their viewers (they can earn a commission by sending their dedicated punters to purchase a compatible device).

For now, we'd expect it to remain a rather niche corner of the market.

Still, it's a slick repackaging of decade-old tech. For JOI and femdom performers whose whole act is control, this is the most interesting toy development in years... assuming their platform builds it, and assuming their audience trusts the hardware enough to strap in.

We'll be watching to see which site says yes first.

Would you hand a cam model the remote?

If you spot Control Me going live on a platform before we do, drop us a line!