Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happen?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:25 pm
by A-R
How easy would it be to mistake that "barrel" accessory for the real thing in the hands of a quick-moving "gamer"?
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Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:40 pm
by C-dub
Only a matter time. It might even be an LEO that is surprised by one of these gamers, who doesn't know there's an LEO nearby.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:56 pm
by jmra
Looks like a bad idea to me.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:57 pm
by ScooterSissy
Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:01 pm
by jmra
ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
A lot of things are cool until someone dies.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:07 pm
by C-dub
ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
It does look cool, but the way they are sneaking around and coming out from behind cover will probably create a very bad situation at some point in time.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:16 pm
by psijac
Easy way to break your phone. Virtual Reality is growing by leaps and bounds, even then it might just be the next in home 3d, by that i mean useless tech that everyone has for some reason but no one uses. Augmented reality is still decades away
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:23 pm
by nyj
ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
agreed.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:04 am
by AFAmmo
psijac wrote: Augmented reality is still decades away
Not true.. Mr. President has a pen and a phone, and is ready to augment.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 7:39 am
by jimlongley
It looks more like a camera than a gun, but running around concentrating on it instead of what's going on around got a couple of people in the video terminated, and could lead to something similar in real life.
Right after Anthony Edwards did "Gotcha" in 1985 it became kind of a cult thing to have "street" paintball, and we had more than one traffic incident where kids were concentrating on their opponent almost to the exclusion of everything else, and once a NY State Capital Police officer drew on a kid who came out from behind a column pointing a gun. The cop was a friend of mine and remained shaken by the incident even though he recognized (eventually) the gun to be an airgun and did not pull the trigger, but he was "that close."
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 7:43 am
by RoyGBiv
ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
I think I'm with Scooter for now... pending more details.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:33 am
by Abraham
The man and woman are "playing" in an urban environment.
Not at the beach or a park, but in a public, urban environment.
And to look at them, you'd think they're adults.
Perhaps, letting grown children continue to live at home, among other things, helps create a "Peter Pan" type "kidult", that is, they're not really adults except in age...
These "kidults" would probably feel embarrassed about their play behavior in public if they ever figure out how ridiculously childish they are...
P.S. Kidult is a term I borrowed from a website that mocks this type behavior.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:07 am
by Jason K
I think we did this before in the '80's.....
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.....and it was as felony stupid then as it is now.
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:42 pm
by ScooterSissy
jmra wrote:
ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
A lot of things are cool until someone dies.
I've seen people take pictures for years, and have yet to hear of someone dying from it.
I think the idea that this may be mistaken for a gun is heightened by us knowing what they're doing, and seeing their screen. Observers (including police) won't see that. They'll see kids (and maybe some adults) taking pictures of each other.
Maybe they should paint the lens device bright orange...
Re: Cool futuristic "video game" or tragedy waiting to happe
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:43 pm
by Javier730
ScooterSissy wrote:Sorry, looks pretty cool to me. And looks a LOT more like people taking pictures than using a gun.
This is a pretty cool device in my opinion.
I think if there is a problem, it will be more because people are using these out in stores or shopping centers and running into people. Someone might run into traffic because they are not paying attention.
Not so sure people will react as if they are gunmen. They look like they are running around taking pictures. Ive seen people open carrying AR15s on Youtube, looking for reactions and people dont react as if they are bad gunmen.
