{"id":404029,"date":"2018-02-24T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T09:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404029"},"modified":"2018-02-24T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T09:27:41","slug":"facebook-drops-shooting-game-demo-conservative-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404029","title":{"rendered":"Facebook drops shooting game demo at conservative event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook has said it regrets promoting a virtual reality shooting game on its stand at a US conservatives&#8217; event.<\/p>\n<p>The game allows the player to shoot imaginary weapons against enemies in a public train station.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it removed the display at the Conservative Political Action Conference &#8220;out of respect&#8221; for victims of a recent school shooting in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We regret that we failed to do so in the first place,&#8221; Hugo Barra, the company&#8217;s head of VR, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is at CPAC and they have a VR shooting game\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/wmV23jezpN<\/p>\n<p>The tech titan had already defended its presence at the political jamboree in Maryland this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facebook routinely participates in events hosted by organizations across the political spectrum,&#8221; a company spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been dominated by discussions over gun control following a school shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Florida, last week.<\/p>\n<p>One of the features of Facebook&#8217;s stand this year was a demonstration station for Oculus Rift, its virtual reality product.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p05z5mm7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\"><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One game being played by delegates was Bullet Train, a free title first unveiled in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the game being played at the event was posted to Twitter by Sean Morrow, a journalist at Now This News.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s head of VR added: &#8220;There is a standard set of experiences included in the Oculus demos we feature at public events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few of the action games can include violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of the recent events in Florida and out of respect for the victims and their families, we have removed them from this demo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has said it regrets promoting a virtual reality shooting game on its stand at a US conservatives&#8217; event. The game allows the player to shoot imaginary weapons against enemies in a public train station. Facebook said it removed the display at the Conservative Political Action Conference &#8220;out of respect&#8221; for victims of a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":404031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[17339,339,17338],"class_list":["post-404029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-conservative-event","tag-facebook","tag-shooting-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}