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01-20-2018, 12:40 PM
Someone had a seizure in VR and nobody knew what to do
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When someone suffers a seizure in real life, it can be an intense, scary experience. When someone suffers a seizure during a VR chat, it can be even more terrifying.*
This is the exact scenario that Sam Raiffeisen, otherwise known as YouTuber Rogue Shadow (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gyBYnMGTCVTEc6UM1gt-A), found himself in recently. While playing VRChat, a multiplayer app where people can hang out with bizarre avatars and take part in simple games, one of the users suffered a seizure.*
"We're so used to technology enabling us to do more, but in this case it was the opposite," Raiffeisen said over email. "The main feature of VR is immersion, and the way this person seemed to be right in front of us in this agonizing state gave the impression that there must be something we could do, that's what my instinct kept telling me, but the logical answer was we couldn't do anything." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/19/vr-chat-multiplayer-seizure-video-epilepsy/)
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When someone suffers a seizure in real life, it can be an intense, scary experience. When someone suffers a seizure during a VR chat, it can be even more terrifying.*
This is the exact scenario that Sam Raiffeisen, otherwise known as YouTuber Rogue Shadow (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gyBYnMGTCVTEc6UM1gt-A), found himself in recently. While playing VRChat, a multiplayer app where people can hang out with bizarre avatars and take part in simple games, one of the users suffered a seizure.*
"We're so used to technology enabling us to do more, but in this case it was the opposite," Raiffeisen said over email. "The main feature of VR is immersion, and the way this person seemed to be right in front of us in this agonizing state gave the impression that there must be something we could do, that's what my instinct kept telling me, but the logical answer was we couldn't do anything." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/19/vr-chat-multiplayer-seizure-video-epilepsy/)
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