{"id":102601,"date":"2016-08-30T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102601"},"modified":"2016-08-30T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:49:33","slug":"why-dead-or-alive-vr-is-already-so-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/102601-why-dead-or-alive-vr-is-already-so-controversial","title":{"rendered":"Why Dead or Alive VR is already so controversial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While VR has many awesome applications for gaming, it was always going to be a slippery slope of people taking things a little too far.<\/p>\n<p>That could be the case with the upcoming Dead or Alive Extreme 3 VR, a game that puts you on a beach resort with a collection\u00a0of bikini-clad women.<\/p>\n<p>An article by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/29\/dead-or-alive-vr-is-basically-sexual-assault-the-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget <\/a><\/strong>went as far as to call the\u00a0VR experience &#8220;Sexual assault: The game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watching a grown man grope a bikini model in virtual reality is awkward enough in its own right, but listening to the video&#8217;s dialogue makes it worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the player pokes and prods Kasumi&#8217;s body with the PlayStation 4&#8217;s motion controller, she tells him &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; and uses a word that directly translates to &#8220;bad&#8221; that is often used to flatly deny permission. The player persists, and the character naturally recoils. We did too &#8212; it&#8217;s a blatantly sexist and aggressive experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game is expected to launch alongside\u00a0the PlayStation VR headset in November.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xXwQHIsH4Ew\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about DOA VR? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to No Man\u2019s Sky review \u2014 an awe-inspiring journey\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102235-no-mans-sky-review-an-awe-inspiring-journey.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">No Man\u2019s Sky review \u2014 an awe-inspiring journey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 awesome PC games you didn\u2019t know were coming in 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101880-5-awesome-pc-games-you-didnt-know-were-coming-in-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 awesome PC games you didn\u2019t know were coming in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything you need to know about Xbox Scorpio\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/102190-everything-you-need-to-know-about-xbox-scorpio.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything you need to know about Xbox Scorpio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People aren&#8217;t happy about what you can do to bikini-clad girls in Dead or Alive Extreme 3 VR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,21575,8399,6477],"class_list":["post-102601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-doa","tag-sex","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102607,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102601\/revisions\/102607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}