(eerie music)
- [Speaker 1] Study just released showing
gun violence rates from the year 2050
reaching an all time high as policy makers
- [Speaker 2] Data Life. Ensuring
that your digital life continues,
even after death.
Unlimited storage of your data, now available for only-
- [Broadcaster] Breaking news, the tech world
was stunned today when an immersive pilot game
named NextChat resulted in injuries at a middle school.
The virtual reality game using
sophisticated AI algorithms was meant to allow users
to speak or chat with any person of their choice.
The game seems to have targeted all females students
wearing its VR headsets.
All but one of those students were able
to remove their headset and remain unharmed.
All the male students remain completely unaffected.
10 year old Emily Breckenger however, has been hospitalized
in critical condition and suffering a coma.
We sat down with the architects of this game
and tech giants at Next Level studios.
Along with their CEO, Rodney Oliver,
for comments on this startling case.
- How could you not see these side effects?
Did you not test on female users?
- Well that was a horrible accident.
The majority of gamers are men users.
- Are there only male students in educational institutions?
Look, if you don't properly test
on female users because your assumption
is that they don't play video games.
Aren't you risking that-
- That was a-
- This might happen again?
- That was a pilot project.
Now we are trying hard to fix this glitch.
- This glitch begins with you and your company, Rodney.
(strained music)
Please stand by for a message from our sponsors.
(mysterious music)
- If this were all so easy.
Why don't you just fix it?
- You'd have to let me in the door first.
Because I did try to become part of your world.
But the closest that I could get to that dream
was being the pretty face who interviews it.
Must just be a glitch.
(suspenseful music intensifies)
(soft classical music)
- [Instructor] What are the organs in the abdomen?
- Pancreas.
- Liver.
- Gallbladder.
- Small intestines.
(music intensifies)
- [Marty] I won't let you fall through.
- I don't wanna play.
- Ugh, Ruby come on, trust yourself.
If you don't think you can do it, then you won't.
I mean, what's up with you today anyways?
You can talk to me, I got you.
- I feel like a ghost.
Like I don't belong anywhere.
Whenever I have something to say, nobody listens.
And when they do listen, it's only because
I'm Rodney Oliver's daughter.
I feel invisible.
(piano playing)
- Ruby, you can live in this world thinking
and feeling like you're invisible, but you're not.
We're seen whether we like it or not.
I mean, do you see yourself there?
Well I see you too and that's the only proof
you need, all right?
I mean, accept your gangster
because you control where you belong.
You're the smartest, the greatest.
You're the best to ever do it.
And what you told me, you said you extract
the things before, you're a creator.
You smell weird-
- Hey!
- But that's fine, all right?
Let's try this one more time.
- All right.
(pleasant music)
- See, I knew you could do it.
We do this a million times, come on.
(palms slapping)
- Whoa!
♪ I ♪
♪ Still ♪
♪ Love ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ I ♪
♪ Yes I will ♪
♪ Still ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Love ♪
- Wow.
♪ You ♪
- That was amazing.
- That was incredible.
- Oh my God, how have you been?
- How are you?
- I'm good, I'm-
- How are you?
- Hacking is a talent.
I'm hacking all this data that y'all leave behind.
(crowd murmuring)
- Mr. And Mrs. Oliver, pillars of our church.
Always so lovely to see you.
Marty.
- Do you have a Data Life charger?
- Who are you trying to talk to?
- No, I'm trying to next check my boomba Girl after this.
(chuckling)
- Boy, bye.
- Oh and Ruby, I didn't even see you there.
Rodney, look I am sorry
about all of this press.
- No, it's-
- He's handling it with such grace.
- Cause you hold it down for me babe.
(chuckles)
We'd have to discontinue the game, for obvious reasons.
My number one priority is to find out what the bug is.
But when I fix it, we'll move on
to the next generation of NextLevel.
- Thanks dad but Ruby's like 10 times smarter than me.
I think she can help you, right Roobs?
Come on, I got you, show him.
- Well, I was watching the Emily Breckenger accident
cause they got you all over the net, dad.
And everyone who got sick was a girl.
So if the variable is sex, maybe I-
- Whoa, whoa, whoa
That word in God's house Ruby.
- I meant when both of you reach the steering wheel.
Guess who's one year closer?
- Yeah, okay.
- [Choir] Happy birthday.
- Happy birthday son.
- [Choir] Happy birthday, happy birthday.
- Don't be so shy.
- Happy birthday.
- Whoa.
- Happy birthday.
- [Choir] Happy birthday, happy birthday.
- You are brilliant princess
but we've talked about this.
No one can enter the game cause we don't know
if they're gonna come back.
Like Emily, okay?
So under no circumstances,
you're allowed to play that game.
Do you hear me?
All right?
Cause I don't know what I would do if I ever lost you.
Okay.
- [Choir] Happy birthday, happy birthday.
(suspenseful music)
(gun shots)
(screaming)
- Get down, get down, get down!
(sirens blaring)
- [Operator] Copy,
(indistinct)
1 fatality.
Victim and motive unknown at this point.
First responders on their way.
(sad music)
(crowd crying)
♪ Amen ♪
- (indistinct)
- Told you to drive more carefully.
What's wrong with the-
- A gift to be distracted.
I dedicated the whole day to (indistinct) my son.
- It was my decision to shut it down.
It is not my decision to bring it back on.
I need to see my son again.
What don't you understand?
I will fix the glitches my self.
(indistinct)
(sad music)
(gasps)
(door opening)
(beeping sound)
(door creaking)
(positive music)
- I can do this.
I can fix this.
- Accept your gangster.
(music intensifies)
(beeping sounds)
(hovering sound)
- [AI] Name.
- Ruby Oliver.
- [AI] User unauthorized for next-
- Beta, Double astricks, key 5, 1, 9, 6, 0.
Override.
- [AI] Override accepted.
[AI] Audible identification verified.
[AI] Now generating personalized Nextchat experience
[AI] for optimal -
(loud thud)
- Did you find her?
Rodney?
(door opens)
- Rodney?
- No. Don't do that.
She has to take it off inside it.
(mysterious music)
(suspenseful music)
(loud thud)
(chanting sounds)
- Sip the sugar.
- Absolutely. Child Please.
You know I'm trying to next check
my boomba girl after this.
(loud thud)
(suspenseful music)
- Emily?
- Ruby?
What are you doing here?
- Marty.
- No.
Stay still.
Stay absolutely still.
Your shouldn't have come.
The game is broken, ruby.
It comes out to kill someone every time,
then keeps restarting.
I don't even know how I got here.
- Gotta input your data life into the game -
- Stop moving.
Don't move.
- Wait, are you -
- Shhshhh.
- Who's coming?
- I don't know who it is.
I think maybe the computer.
It's targeting all the girls,
one by one, and if you move,
it'll kill you too.
And I think that's the game.
(suspenseful music)
- Marty, its just a game.
Its just data.
- [Marty] Data?
Ruby, you need to get out of here.
(suspenseful music)
- Sorry Offi-
- (indistinct)
(suspenseful music)
(entity growling)
- [Speaker] If this glitch targets the data life,
(indistinct) motor controls your headset.
Its all in her hands.
- You said you can help fix the game, right?
Right?
- I,
I don't know.
It's going to know I'm an imposter.
- No ruby.
- [Marty] You need to do this.
You need to destroy this game.
Think.
- I know you.
She was sitting.
She didn't fall.
Everyone else fell.
It could be a physics thing
where the brain is woken up by-
(suspenseful music)
- Destroy it.
(loud thud)
(heartbeat racing)
(positive music)
- Emily
I don't know how much long we have,
but we have to do this together.
When I move, you run towards me.
I'm going to come over now.
Blink once if you wish to go ahead.
(suspenseful music)
(loud thud)
- Emily.
Emily.
Oh my god.
- Nurse.
(chairs pushed back)
- Oh my.
(sighing)
- Oh baby your okay.
- We need to destroy the game.
- Don't worry, don't worry about that.
- Infact listen to her.
- Dad, listen.
Its not next chatting you,
the game has changed.
[Ruby] Its doing its own thing.
[Ruby] The AI is targeting the girls
that got the virus.
[Ruby] You have to shut it down.
- [News] Next levels studios notorious pilot incident,
now Walmart place an artificial intelligence.
- Some good ones to come from (indistinct)
(suspenseful music)
- I got you.
(loud thud)
(suspenseful music)
(positive music)
(suspenseful music)
- [Rebecca] Hello?
This Rebecca Flint.
Our daily lives are still here.
Hello?
We're stuck.
You didn't-
(loud thud)