Alexandra Jimenez
5/20/2017 0 Comments Blog 7: Playtest Black mirror I am a huge fan of series on Netflix Black Mirror, the episodes have mind blowing technology that is more than likely going to be available in the next coming years. The story starts off with the main character Cooper, who has been traveling around the world while trying to deal with the recent death of his father. He finds himself with no money in his account, and looks up quick cash jobs. He then finds an ad from Saito Game Team, to be a playtester for a new Artificial Reality game they are working on.
The Saito Game Team is known for their horror ways and was rumored to be developing a new system. What they were actually working on is an implant that “layers lifelike images and sounds” into the main character’s perception without using any wires or glasses. The first game he plays in a whack a mole game to test him, but he is then approved to move onto the horror house game that generates in real time horrible characters based on Cooper’s fears and thoughts he has while playing. They start of the game by walking him into this old horror house. This game is basically a haunted house that you created on your own. Being a horror enthusiast, and being the person at movie that always figures out what cliché the movie will throw at you, I would die playing this game. At the end of the game, he tells the person “helping and recording” that he is done and want to end the game. So they tell him to go upstairs into the room and that it will end, but he starts to doubt the situation and says no I know there is something bad in there, and then the lady asks “like what” and he said “some personal fucked-up shit.. I can feel it digging around my head.” which if I was in his position I would think the exact same thing. Little does he know that his worse fear was about to be manipulated. He walks into the room and when he turns around the door is gone and the person talking in his tells him that there is no way out, that they wanted to see if they broke him down enough to get him to follow instructions. She then continues to ask a lot of personal questions, which he cannot answer and he yells out “its taking my memories!” and she corrects him by saying “overwriting them, technically.” But it was all in his head, the game has taken over his mind and over the program, not even the developer could stop it or remove the technology from his neck. What shocked me the most is him saying “ I can feel it digging around my head, it is going to be something with my mom, … dead. It knows!” He can feel this game going through his memories and picking the worst. How scary would it be to have this type of technology that can pick and choose through your memories? This is all just for a game, but as to how far could this technology be used? Will we live in a world where fake memorize can also be implanted into our brain? What will this type of technology lead too? As much as I am excited for all the new technology, I am at the same time scared for what is to come, for technology to consume us.
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