heady
01-18-2008, 11:28 AM
A young Russian man has been charged with murder after an internet game jumped off the screen onto the street. It's alleged he killed an internet gaming rival after they met face to face in the city of Ufa.
Violence on screen isn't harmful to anyone. But when virtual reality and real life collide an innocent game can end in tragedy.
Their confrontation led to tragedy. Albert was badly beaten and died from his injuries on the way to hospital.
Read more.. Full Story (http://www.russiatoday.ru/scitech/news/19777)
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And a twenty-year-old from Petrosavodsk killed his grandmother after she interrupted his game calling him to eat.
However, internet experts say these cases shouldn't be lumped together just because some people can't handle the situation.
“Not many talk about the benefits of internet games for disabled people who don’t have a chance to communicate with others like themselves or able-bodied people. Nobody mentions the benefits the internet can offer in education,” says Aleksandr Kuzmenko of a computer game magazine.
With more and more people logging on to get their fix of virtual reality the experts say incidents like these are rare, and want it to stay that way.
That real hard :S
Violence on screen isn't harmful to anyone. But when virtual reality and real life collide an innocent game can end in tragedy.
Their confrontation led to tragedy. Albert was badly beaten and died from his injuries on the way to hospital.
Read more.. Full Story (http://www.russiatoday.ru/scitech/news/19777)
More from the article..
And a twenty-year-old from Petrosavodsk killed his grandmother after she interrupted his game calling him to eat.
However, internet experts say these cases shouldn't be lumped together just because some people can't handle the situation.
“Not many talk about the benefits of internet games for disabled people who don’t have a chance to communicate with others like themselves or able-bodied people. Nobody mentions the benefits the internet can offer in education,” says Aleksandr Kuzmenko of a computer game magazine.
With more and more people logging on to get their fix of virtual reality the experts say incidents like these are rare, and want it to stay that way.
That real hard :S