Extra Credit

This week in class our group discussed the military and gaming relationship as well as the problems within censored technologies. There was someone in this group who was apart of each of presentations so they emphasized a lot more on what they already touched up on during their presentation.

To start off with the gaming systems used within military training, the technologies are very similar. The part that scares me still the most is the way that some of the people who are training using these certain technology “games” is still in a gamer mindset when it is the real thing. They make the controllers for the drones similar to the Xbox’s. With that being said some of the people in charge of the drone see it as just sitting back at home in their bedrooms playing a game. It makes it easier in a way for one to learn in this job field when it is similar to something they have already done.

The other topic that we touched on is the problems with censors in some technologies. An example that was used was the hand soaps that are electric. Problems have derived from this because people with darker skin are having problems with getting the censors to work. Then a white person or someone with lighter skin puts their hand under the soap dispenser and it will react to their skin colors. This is because light is being used in this technology and with that being said something can be done. The fact that there are still problems with public soap dispensers as well as the Xbox game Kinect in this day in age kind of bugs me. They can fix the censors on the products and work with the different lights but there is still problems happening with picking up darker skinned people.