Reporter Adam Smith was given exclusive access to the new Cornerstone VR anti-knife crime and youth serious crime virtual reality project. As the first journalist to experience teenage life and ultimately being stabbed to death in the VR world, Adam describes what a generation of youngsters could see to help them avoid the evils of knife crime
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00:00When I was younger, this is totally 360 so I'm looking around the garden and I can see
00:07house, garden behind me,
00:11teenagers drinking alcohol.
00:15Oh hang on, it's kicking off in the uh, it's kicking inside the party.
00:22Oh, ah, got those like kind of goose, um, uh, goose, goose, not goose pimples, like
00:31turn of the stomach because I can see something's, something's going on. Yeah, hold on, it's coming
00:38out. I don't want to look at him. Yeah, okay, so.
00:51So, yeah, I'm listening to my two friends chatting,
00:55and now, now there's someone over, someone's coming over, okay.
00:59Okay, so there's an argument.
01:11Yeah, get out of there.
01:12Oh, this guy, this guy's lost it. He's shouting about stuff being posted online.
01:33Oh no, she's got involved now.
01:35No, I don't want to do anything.
01:54Oh no, he's got a knife. Okay, he's got a knife, knife, knife, knife, knife. No!
02:05I've been stabbed.
02:17Uh, Adam Smith from the Expressing Star, um, I'm watching a VR, virtual reality video of um,
02:25a party, uh, and I'm the person, so it's, it's, it's people talking to me, and then
02:33there was an argument, there was a, and then basically it's kicked off, that's what arguments
02:38do, and, and I've just been stabbed, and I'm, by the, by the judging of the friends looking at me,
02:46I'm pretty sure I'm dead, but I had to stop watching it, it was that, um,
02:51that good, and that harrowing. So the plan is, I think, for teenagers who, um, will,
02:59will, will watch these videos and learn maybe empathy, or how a decision on any kind of night
03:06can end in, A, being stabbed, or there was a guy, the bloke who stabbed me was a bit of a rongan,
03:16I'm not making that up, excuse me, but his mate was just standing there, now he's gonna probably
03:22get done for a joint enterprise, maybe get 20 years, now what's his story? Now this is what
03:27Cornerstone do, they've done videos that go all the way back from, uh, inside the womb, and,
03:35and this, this is a bit like Seven Up, um, the, the seminal, um, uh, 1960s documentary which,
03:42which trailed children every seven years, but this is, like, speeded up, and on, on whiz,
03:47maybe, a mark of common parlance would say, it is using three minute videos, and, and, and,
03:55it's a whole world, but at the end of it, uh, I've been killed, and, uh, I'm not happy about it.