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Oculus Rift Guillotine Simulation
An anonymous reader tipped us to news of an interesting hack for the Oculus Rift: a simulation of being beheaded by a Guillotine. Thrown together in a couple of days at the Exile Code Jam, the simulation lets you... "look around to see the blade above, the crowd of onlookers around them, and the executioner who signals the blade be dropped. It also enhances the experience when someone watches the blade falling on a nearby screen and taps the user on the back of the neck at the time of impact."
Just a bit morbid. There's a video of people "playing" (nsfw language in a few reactions to being virtually beheaded).
...but it's nothing to lose your head over.
Only on
It's called Windows 8 I think. They say this provides a very real experience compared to this "simulation".
I am going to try it out now.
*TAP* *TAP* *THUD* *Blood*
The simulation runs headless.
And you thought being rick-rolled was bad.
Bleeding edge you might say
This isn't one of them, though.
#DeleteChrome
Funnier to actually decapitate them when the blade falls.
They never see it coming!
And I am imagining a Beowulf cluster of these.
put it on death row and people may not want to end up there.
I thought of building a home guillotine for family or friends who might feel the need for a quick exit or perhaps to chop some cabbage. And perhaps I could sell and distribute home guillotines. After all there is so much whining about people using their hand guns for suicide.
But then I thought I was being greedy and just maybe I should be more oriented towards helping the entire community. So I want to build a guillotine that people walking by would be free to use. If they stop and chat a moment and decide not to stick their heads under the blade I'll offer them a cigarette. Of course the cigarette would cause a far slower and much more painful and degrading death than the guillotine so I suppose that handing them a smoke is more immoral than loaning out my guillotine to them.
Does the Slashdot community feel that I would have legal issues if I allow people to chop their heads off? I would not want to suffer like Dr. Jack did and go to prison and all. Matter of fact the convicts might love a guillotine to be handy that they could use at will any old time. Getting one's head chopped off is a treat compared to old Sheriff Joe in Arizona and his green baloney sandwiches. Between death and our justice system it is pretty much a toss up even without green baloney sandwiches.
put it on death row and people may not want to end up there.
As opposed to now, where people are clamoring to get in?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
... playing the next Silent Hill.
Has anyone involved in the development been arrested yet?
I find it fascinating that the universal response of the 'victims' in the video is laughter. They're not laughing because anything is particularly funny. It's the sort of laughter that is created by an inappropriate joke or a stressful situation that is avoided.
This speaks to the quality and efficacy of the simulation - it elevates stress enough that it causes participants to need to 'laugh it off'.
This leads me to consider the possibility of use of simulations like this ones to test for things like psychopathy. A psychopath will remain calm and unaffected by things that will trigger stress response in typical individuals. I know this is a dicey road to go down in terms of law enforcement and personal rights, but it could be a useful tool for psychologists.
In writing this, my mind went to the Voight-Kampff test in 'Blade Runner'. Perhaps, instead of an inquisitor reading off questions, a potential psychopath/replicant plays out a VR simulation of a tortoise stranded on its back...
This is the killer app for Occulus Rift!
put it on death row and people may not want to end up there.
As opposed to now, where people are dieing to get in?
It must be pretty awful do die like that. I cannot imagine instant death would occur, there must be a few seconds or more after your head is chopped off until you lose consciousness. Its not like being shot through the brain. They say Hearing is the last to go, so you can hear the reaction of the crowd as you die. ;-(
All the 72 sheep they can fuck? Or a simulation in which rocks are thrown? Oh oh, I know! Being able to blow yourself up over and over again!
Yeah ... put a bunch of Muslim developers together and look what happens.
Dont hold back now. Show us the true extent of your hatred.
I always though that was a stupid idea.
But... the future refused to change.
Just a PR stunt to distract us from the abusive and deceiving changes to the "open source" license they stated in their kickstarter, and that when money came through the door it was quickly abandoned.
This is kind of a turn-on. I can see this being part of BDSM in the future.
I seems I was wrong. I expected the first tasteless use for the Oculus rift would have something to do with pr0n.
bickerdyke
...why play with a simulation, when you can easily get the real thing ?
Congratulations, folks... And welcome to the Future!
We had the era of paintings, then the era of photographs, then the era of moving pictures, then the "talkies" and (gasp!) colorized films, then direct-to-video home porn rental, and now we are entering the era of the "feelies".
And of course with each new era we have a lovely renewed bout of public "moral outrage" over the increased stimulation the viewer receives with each new technology, and how it contributes to moral depravity that will destroy our nation if it isn't stopped!
During the coming decade or so we will begin to hear whispers, then breaking news stories, and finally public outcry, hysteria and demands that the government "do something" about all this simulated violence and suicide our children are partaking in, before we tragically lose an entire generation to the "new drug" of Virtual Experiences.
Brace yourselves, folks.
At the local science museum there used to be (there may still be) a mock guillotine that you could put your head in. There was a mirror at the bottom that allowed you to watch the cardboard blade slowly rise "above" you and then fall at a semi-random time once it got to the top. When it hit the bottom it blew a small jet of air at the back of your neck.
The reactions I've seen watching people do that are pretty similar to this, so it's interesting to see how immersive it is despite having a display strapped to your head.
The simulation is not very realistic because in reality your head would be pushed down, facing the ground and fastened by a wooden block, so you could hardly move. If you looked up with your eyes you would maybe see the crowd in front of you, but you would never see the blade coming.
After all it seems to be the cutting edge for simultaneously curing people of neck pain and clean underware.
This old joke needs to be revised. The engineer must say "wait, I think I know where the bug is..."
When can I get the Nick Berg experience?
Thanks mods. Casual bigotry without so much as a punchline: +1 funny, right?
Don't worry, German engineering will save us.
Never mind that they already are there, or the fact that threats does not really work, as is obvious by all the crimes.
A guillotine app is the ultimate "killer app", but maybe nobody got the joke.
I give up
Los me a bet. I bet that the first killer application for Oculus rift should have been porn.
"It helps if a friend taps the user on the back of the neck at the time of impact."
I also heard it feel very realistic if they take an axe to back your neck right at the moment of impact!
(Warning this post should never be followed by anyone, even a trained professional. In short please don't try this at home people.)
All glory to the Hypnotoad!
The de-sensitizing an execution makes it more possible to become a reality show. Until it's you they're watching.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
So I can be put into a visually stunning VR environment with the Oculus, and Durex's Fundawear let's me remotely control another person's under garments? Next you'll tell me about "the three sea shells"!
What a time we live in!
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