{"id":23758,"date":"2016-03-19T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/virtual-reality-horror-game-the-brookhaven-experiment-will-scare-the-st-out-of-you"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:38:54","slug":"virtual-reality-horror-game-the-brookhaven-experiment-will-scare-the-st-out-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/virtual-reality-horror-game-the-brookhaven-experiment-will-scare-the-st-out-of-you","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality horror game The Brookhaven Experiment will scare the s**t out of you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZqhDRHPWjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The unholy, skinless, bloody creatures shambled toward me on all sides. My pistol was pitifully inadequate. For the first time ever, I pulled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/vr\/\">VR<\/a> rig off my head in the middle of a demo.<\/p>\n<p>Not even extreme nausea had caused me to do so before Thursday, when I demoed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/htc-vive\/\">HTC Vive<\/a> game <em>The Brookhaven Experiment<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/valve-software\/\">Valve Software\u2019s<\/a> booth at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/gdc-2016\/\">2016 Game Developers Conference<\/a>. I\u2019d always choked down the bile and forced myself to finish the demo rather than bail, even though this is almost always a bad decision. Call it stupid gamer pride.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Brookhaven Experiment<\/em> is what happens when <em>Resident Evil<\/em> is ported into VR. I had known in advance that I was about to play a survival horror game. I had not known that this would result in my actually fearing for my life, because it was the first survival horror game I\u2019d played on the Vive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/brookhaven-experiment-terrifying-htc-vive-survival-horror-game-gdc-2016\/?fb=dd\">http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/brookhaven-experiment-terrifyin...016\/?fb=dd<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unholy, skinless, bloody creatures shambled toward me on all sides. My pistol was pitifully inadequate. For the first time ever, I pulled a VR rig off my head in the middle of a demo. Not even extreme nausea had caused me to do so before Thursday, when I demoed the HTC Vive game The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62339,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions\/62339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}