Someone Will Die Playing a Game In Virtual Reality

SlappingOysters writes: Grab It has detailed a hands-on session with horror VR title Kitchen — from Resident Evil creator Capcom — and argues how the physical reaction to the experience could lead to death. The site also believes that classifying VR games will be a challenge and many titles could be banned. Virtual Reality has a big year ahead, with the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus all set to release, while Microsoft is working on the HoloLens, which the site argues adds a further challenge to traditional gaming.

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What about the first VR rape?

[Anonymous Coward]

Long before somebody dies because of playing a VR game, I think we will see somebody complain about getting raped by such a game.

We won't know the specifics of the situation until it actually happens, but I hypothesize that it will involve a very outspoken, left-leaning, college-educated (some strain of sociology, most likely) woman in her early 20s. She will likely be somewhat overweight, but not obese, and otherwise very unremarkable. Because of her obnoxious, self-righteous attitude, her obsession with "social causes", and her average physique, she will attract the attention of very few males. The only ones she will interact with will be weak-willed, soft man-boys she met at her college, who likely exhibit latent homosexuality. As a result, she will be deprived of the typical sexual interaction and pleasure that normal women receive.

This woman will try on a virtual reality headset. She will play a fairly typical game. It may be some form of 3D sudoku, most likely. But the experience will be traumatic to her, for some reason. She will convince herself that she was violated and molested. She will go to the media with her story. She will be on every morning show, talking about her harrowing experience. She will have newspaper columns written about her. Twitter will be on fire. She will have become The First Victim of Virtual Reality Rape.

Re:There should be a wavier on birth

[Karmashock]

"Some crazy how" is an expression... Welcome to the 21st century. We're called humans. Where are you from? ... I said "then you'll love public healthcare"... you criticize my grammar then out yourself as illiterate? Well played.

*golf clap"

As to insurance companies... wrong. If that were so then car insurance and home insurance etc would be sky high expensive.

why is uniquely health insurance so expensive?

And note, the profit margin of health insurance companies is not that great.

Of all the organizations that are responsible for the high cost of medical case, health insurance companies are the least to blame.

If anything they're keeping costs down.

What keeps costs down in a capitalist system is competitive pricing.

When was the last time you saw the prices of hospitals compared between each other? When was the last time you saw them even list prices?

The two big culprits are actually the hospitals and the regulations under which the hospitals operate.

This is why private practices are often cheaper and it is much cheaper to see a general practitioner in his own office not located on the hospital grounds than it is to see even an urgent care doctor inside the hospital.

You blame the health insurance companies for the high prices. Explain to me please how they conspire to inflate costs when somehow their profits are so low? Where is the money going if THEY are keeping it?

As to where you said the current system is free market... or the previous system was free market... you literally said it immediately before challenging me to quote you:

"Bought by insurance companies, that bastion of capitalism."

How are you so fucking stupid that you can contradict yourself just one sentence apart? You're fucking astounding.

As to you still using your brain... as the previous example shows... No you're not.

Re:There should be a wavier on birth

[Karmashock]

You realize there are non-profit insurance companies right... and they don't cost the same as the for profit ones.

You're so brainwashed its funny.

A fair number of the blue cross/blue shield providers are non-profit.

They cost the same though.

You've been lied to by your political masters, spud.

Wise up.

As to other insurance companies being inflated in cost... compare the trend line of cost increases with other types of insurance. There's no comparison.

You've sadly bought a conspiracy theory about as stupid as the 9/11 being a US government plot... you've been suckered.