There are a lot of gaming parallels between Black Mirror's tech flavoured nightmares on Netflix. That's not surprising, as c𝓀reator and ♑writer Charlie Brooker used to review games when he first started out.
In the new season alone the second episode Playtest deals with VR gone horribly wrong, while Men Against Fire was another altered reality idea about soldiers fed 'corrected images꧋ to make it easier for them to kill' (more or less the plot to PS3's Haze).
Now Brooker's been playing PS VR. And I think he likes it.
Some quick off-the-top-of-my head thoughts on VR coming, so look away now if bored shitless by your INEVITAꩵBLE FUTURE
I’ve tried Oculus Rift a few times. Eg @PaintingP used one to create a virtual ‘𝓰Tucker’s’ for San Junipero prior to the shoot...
… but none of those really prepared 𝄹me for the barrage🐓 of HOLY SHIT moments I’ve had trying out the PSVR thingy...
If that sounds like he's having fun, then he continues to get even more e♐xcited:
It’s mental. It&♏rsquo;s like DREAMING the fucking game.
The Batman thing, for instance, is just remarkable. I actually had to take it off for the final scene bec💙ause I was getting too freaked o🌺ut.
… It reminds me of w𝕴hen I first saw Doom. Or Mario 64. Or fuck it, Space Invaders. A real sense that “everꦦything just changed”.
He's cautious about a few things though.
It’s not perfect. There are 10 billion💮 cables. It can be blurr꧟y. Clunky. Some things make you feel seasick. But...
&he🀅llip; bearing in mind this is the most basic home🅷 VR is likely to be it’s pretty mind-blowing. Also: when I used to picture VR...
… I always༒ imagined 1st-person experiences. Didn’t *occur* to me how immersive a 3rd-person game like Bound or Tethered would be.
But, as you can tell, he's pro the🐼 whole 🍌thing overall.
Anyhow, like I say — they sent it to me༒, so it cost me nothing. Try before you buy. But bloody HELL that’s the future right there t𓄧hat is.
Black Mirror se🍸ason 3 is currently available on Netflix
Images: Netflix/Relativity Media
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