{"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\/2018\/02\/facebook-drops-shooting-game-demo-conservative-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook drops shooting game demo at conservative event"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facebook has said it regrets promoting a virtual reality shooting game on its stand at a US conservatives’ event.<\/p>\n
The game allows the player to shoot imaginary weapons against enemies in a public train station.<\/p>\n
Facebook said it removed the display at the Conservative Political Action Conference “out of respect” for victims of a recent school shooting in Florida.<\/p>\n
“We regret that we failed to do so in the first place,” Hugo Barra, the company’s head of VR, told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Facebook is at CPAC and they have a VR shooting game\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/wmV23jezpN<\/p>\n
The tech titan had already defended its presence at the political jamboree in Maryland this week.<\/p>\n
“Facebook routinely participates in events hosted by organizations across the political spectrum,” a company spokesman said.<\/p>\n
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
One of the features of Facebook’s stand this year was a demonstration station for Oculus Rift, its virtual reality product.<\/p>\n