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Facebook has removed a virtual reality shoot-em-up experience from a tech demo at a top American conservative conference after recieving criticism for being "tone deaf" following last week's deadly school shooting in Florida. The social network has a presence at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference in Maryland, this week, including a booth running a demo of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. This demo included a first-person shooting game.
People on Twitter have criticised Facebook for running this demo so soon after the deadly shooting attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead.
The game, Bullet Train, was just one of a number of standard Oculus games/demos that Facebook has included at public events. In fact, Bullet Train has been around since 2015, and the team that made it released a full game called Robo Recall, funded by Oculus:
The game will be an Oculus exclusive — that company is funding its development — and the five-to-ten-person team that created Bullet Train has ballooned into a full 15 person team at Epic in order to turn this into a real game with a release date in "early 2017." It will include a number of graphical jumps from Bullet Train, and this benefits Epic in other ways as well.
Yet, Facebook still tried to distance itself from the original demo:
The demo for the game, called "Bullet Train," is being developed by a third-party game-maker, not Oculus, the company said.
Why is Facebook at CPAC? Probably as part of an ongoing effort to placate conservatives angry at the platform.
This comes a few months after the Puerto Rico hurricane VR debacle.
Also at The Guardian and The Hill.
(Score: 1) by Captival on Sunday February 25 2018, @05:42AM (3 children)
Obviously any gathering of conservatives must be gun free. We all know what crazed nutjobs like you vile scum Liberals will try, given half a chance. Just ask Steve Scalise.
(Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Sunday February 25 2018, @05:57AM (1 child)
But the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Or a crowd of good guys with guns if one [nbcnews.com] or more [cnn.com] have to run away. 🔫💥🇺🇸
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @08:12AM
Bah, stopping bad guys with guns is easy. But how do you stop a bad guy with a video game if all you have is a gun!
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 25 2018, @08:31AM
Steve Scalise, braver than all of us. He had a more rough year -- last year -- than most of us. That is one way to lose weight. Not a good way. Not good at all.
Never Trump, I'm sure you remember the Never Trump folks. And maybe, probably, you are one. Let me tell you, there's not many left. So many came around. Even Lyin' Ted Cruz endorsed me. But 2016, it was bad. Very rough. I was invited to CPAC that year. But my campaign guys told me, don't go. Because they thought we'd run into so many protesters. From the Never Trump folks and from the alt-left. And if I'd gone, let me tell you, I could have stood in the middle of CPAC and shot someone, and I wouldn't have lost any votes -- not one. But I couldn't do that. Because it was a gun-free zone in 2016 too. So I stayed away.
But people were talking about me. Because a couple of alt-left guys were there, badly damaging my trademark. They were passing out Russian flags with my name -- TRUMP -- in Fake Gold. The Russian flag, as everyone knows, is red, blue and white. 🇷🇺 Same colors as my campaign uses. And everyone knows I love gold -- who doesn't love gold? Maybe there's somebody. Trust me, there's nobody. You see TRUMP in gold, you know it's me. And these alt-left guys must have thought, conservatives are DUMB. And can't tell gold from Fake Gold. They weren't dumb, they could tell. Some people got fooled, not everybody. And those Fake Flags got rounded up. I wasn't there but I'm very proud of that. Although it got the so-called Russia investigation started.
I've spoken so many times at CPAC, the friends and the memories are VERY SPECIAL. And it was beautiful this year, I think we had 4 protesters. There was one guy, he booed me. So they took him out, very quickly. They were very nice to him, believe me.
And I said to the folks at CPAC, remember when I started running? Because I wasn’t a politician, fortunately. But I started running and people would say, “Are you sure he’s a conservative?” And I said to CPAC, I think now we've proved that I’m a conservative. And there was a HUGE round of applause. So, Never Trump? That's very 2016 of you. But you be you!