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But you can tell which comments are from Guardian readers. 'Powerful', 'evocative', 'devastating'? This is not an opera, but a brief insight into what it's like for a pretty serious criminal to live here. Oh do I detest liberalism. Criminals deserve to be punished.

The Guardian was the best newspaper in the world in my estimation but garnering sympathy for murderers, rapists, and thieves is part of a corrupt uneducated liberal agenda of pure insanity. Liberal ideology is fine and desperately needed in todays climate but a lot of it has run amock. IMO criminals should be shot dead. no sympathy. The Guardian will result in a poisonous idealogy empowering both local and foreign terrorists and criminals.

I mean their IT products are really solid. For this app: the cinematography I'd say isn't the best, but the VR quality is good.

There's no way to really capture the sense of dread you'd get from this type of torture if you can quit at any time, but this brings awareness to an important issue, and I want to thank the developers for making it.

It is a short demo, but gives great insight on life in a cell. I can't imagine staying in one, nor do I plan on finding out. It's worth the download and worked great on my 6P.

Sitting or laying on your bed trying to feel the presens is recommended.

Very, different. A worthwhile experience

This truly felt like I was locked up and the commentary and images were so vital to the story. I did leave the experience feeling a bit depressed but amazed at the same time. So educational.

It worked a wonder on showing what it is really like in solitary confinement for prisoners. The one problem I had was far away text on the walls was to difficult to read.

I really wanted to experience the story, but application just keeps crashing. I have high end phone with plenty of memory and very good GPU.

Good set up but keeps crashing. Very frustrating. Haven't seen much of it at all...

Not fit for purpose due to constant crashing. Resolution quite poor also with obvious horizontal lines.

Randomly crashes in the middle of playing, great story until it crashes FIX!

Fully immersive! Guaranteed to leave you feeling a bit lost and depressive afterwards.

How can I say great job for something truly horrible?

It's good eh

Crashes

A very sobering, immersive and imaginative VR experience. The only let down for me was the performance when using Google Cardboard. Any movement more than a slight turn would cause lag and stuttering. It didn't ruin the experience, but smoother movement would be much better for the immersion.

Looked like it might be interesting.Kept crashing though tried several times but gave up in the end.

Very powerful and well presented content. Unfortunately I still haven't managed to view it all as in 5 attempts it crashed every time at different points.. With no possibility other than always restarting from the beginning it's rather annoying.. And cannot explain why it would crash on a Galaxy S7..

My review is based from a VR experience point of view, as the app permits a sort of 'cinematic' AR stile viewing as well. The VR is immersive enough, given 3D sound and center-view 'interactions' For what it wants to present, it does so wonderfully. The interactivity is limited to descriptions of some of the things you look at, and how inmates get to interact with them and the like... informative. (reminiscent of Count of Monte Cristo). it has a minimalist environment, (low texture detail) which is OK given that is meant to work through CardBoard on a wide array of phone specs. The reason this does not get 5/5 is the jittering. Surprisingly for such a small environment, on a high-end phone (Samsung S6) moving one's head at a speed faster than 90'/2s (any direction) it jitters painfully, in the truest sense of the word... painfully. Lastly, given that it is the 1st VR experience, Guardian, your app branding needs work: you either make a stand alone app 6x9... or you make an app that permits the choosing among different experiences... although you only have 1 so far... Granted it's the 1st and there is room for improvement with each iteration. Good Luck onward!

This is ridiculous who feels sorry for this my apartment in nyc was worst than this. I use this on my kids so they can stay in school and not do drugs

Absolutely devastating. it changed my mind. Now the question is what can we do? How can we do to help those people not to damage themselves and others. Thank You Guardian for passing this important message to us.

People complaining it doesn't work have phone issues. Works fine on Note 3 with Google cardboard.

Great eye opener and educational. Seems to have pretty bad drift issue with the Samsung S5 though. By the time the video ended, I almost drifted 180 degrees.

Tried a few times now and it keeps crashing as the meal is served, about 2 minutes in. I'm sure it would be a much deeper experience if it worked for me. I'm on an S7 with Google Cardboard.

Really evocative use of VR technology. I've been craving an experience with the technology that is educational, immersive, and asks important questions about society from an alternate perspective - and this app does a remarkable job of hitting all of those notes... I will say that the user's interactivity with the environment is limited, and this is more of a narrative space for the user to investigate, but the shifting in time works well to propel the story. Keep up the good work Guardian - show the potential of this technology!

Experiencing constant crashes after around 2-3 minutes. Loving the experience so far though. Very eager to see fixes!!

A cool and unique way of presenting information

Vividly intense. Superbly produced. Conveyed the feeling brilliantly.

Installed on Moto G (2nd gen 2015 model) with Android 6 and it will crash out at random places meaning starting again from the beginning. A real shame because it is a very powerful piece of art.

Amazing so far but neex to fiv the crash problem.

Wembly at full capacity are living this as you watch.

Gave me goose bumps

I felt eery as I was using it. Very well produced.

Amazing

How can I say great job for something truly horrible?

Immersive experience with a great message.

Wow creepy.

10 seconds of viewing this and I had to make sure I was not really there. Awesome and informational