https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBb5J2Qoytw
From the creators of dystopian satire Ghosts with Shit Jobs comes this concept trailer for a new web series called Haphead, about a world where gamers can translate their in-game skills to the real world … with asskicking results.
https://gizmodo.com/a-brilliant-satirical-indie-flick-about-the-future-of-5910464
Haphead refers to the haptic feedback technology that’s become popular ten years in the future. It forms an electrical connection with your brain, sort of like a super EEG rig crossed with Occulus Rift, and allows you experience videogames on a physical level. As a result, the fighting skills you learn in-game translate into muscle memories. Hapheads have become addicted to gaining these skills.
In this trailer, we meet Elysia, a young haphead fueling her videogame obsession by working at a FOXCONN-like company and stealing the latest technology that’s rolling off the assembly line. But when her father is killed in the line of duty by hapheads, her gaming gets serious.
I love the brief bit of footage we see of Elysia’s in-game avatar, a bunny ninja whose moves she’s absorbed by the time she’s fighting bad guys in the real world. And the idea of a corporation that’s totally unregulated, making videogame controllers that transform our brains, is actually pretty realistic.
This trailer is a concept for a web series that Munroe and his colleagues are hoping will be funded through the Canadian Independent Production Fund. Find out more on the Haphead website.
