Three people are recovering from symptoms commonly related to shock after demoing an app for the Oculus Rift at last weekend's Salt Lake Comic Con. The demo, entitled Falling Without A Parachute, is a simulation of falling from an airplane and landing on the ground without a parachute or any other kind of lifesaving device. The three people have yet to be identified, but two of them are said to be in fair condition with one still listed in serious condition at the University Of Utah Medical Center.
Falling Without A Parachute is similar to a rollercoaster app developed for the Oculus Rift called ParrotCoaster, which has evoked visceral responses when demoed at a convention in Mississippi and later when the demo was posted online for users to try at home. The developers of Falling Without A Parachute, Acrophobia Technologies, refused to release a video of the game in use for fear of a lawsuit from the three people currently in medical care. The leader of the Acrophobia Technologies, Scottie Ferguson, did release the following statement:
"Our application was designed to provide the user with the visual imagery of what it would be like to fall out of an airplane without a parachute. It was not our intention to get a physical reaction with our product, like the reactions we saw when we demoed out application at the Salt Lake City Comic Con. We deeply regret that we caused this reactions, and we have pulled our demo from any further public displays untill we can redesign it so that such a reaction does not happen again."
However, the demo for Falling Without A Parachute was available on the internet for a time, and copies of the demo are now available for download on several websites without the permission of Acrophobia Technologies. In fact, several reaction videos of people demoing Falling Without A Parachute have been posted to YouTube, one of which can be found here.
Take your normal superhero origin story. Guy gets powers, guy realizes he has powers, guy goes out to save the world. Now factor this in: the guy has a score to settle.
Everybody wonders what it is that makes them who they are. The Hawk thought that question was securely answered. However a meeting with a boy in a hospital causes him to question everything. Why he is, who he is, what he is, and even if he is.
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There is a story. A story of pain, a story of loss, a story of unspeakable horrors, a story that has not been given it's proper attention. Some are ignoring this story. Some are unaware of this story. Some know of this story but are complicit in it's darkness. This is a story that must be told. Told so that the good can stop it and the bad can feel shame for it.
When I thought up thig blog, the name I first thought up was "Random Bullshit". Quickly I recognized that this name would put some people off. Then I thought of the name "Random Bull****". That seemed to be to much clutter. Then I was inspired with the name that dons this blog today.
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