Oculus creator fired by Facebook made a VR headset that can kill users - Business Insider

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Palmer Luckey, who created Meta's Oculus, created a VR headset that kills users successful existent beingness if they dice successful a video game.
"The thought of tying your existent beingness to your virtual avatar has ever fascinated me," Luckey precocious wrote.
Luckey sold Oculus, the backbone of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse pivot, to Facebook successful 2014 for $2 billion.

Palmer Luckey conscionable upped the stakes of losing successful video games to a startling degree.

The archetypal creator of the Oculus headset, which present serves arsenic the backbone for Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions, wrote successful a blog post that helium had modified a VR headset to detonate erstwhile the wearer loses successful a video game, sidesplitting the idiosyncratic successful existent life, too.

In the post, titled "If you dice successful the game, you dice successful existent life," Luckey said helium was inspired to make the deadly gaming instrumentality by a fictional VR headset called "NerveGear" featured successful an anime tv bid called Sword Art Online.

"The thought of tying your existent beingness to your virtual avatar has ever fascinated maine – you instantly rise the stakes to the maximum level and unit radical to fundamentally rethink however they interact with the virtual satellite and the players wrong it... lone the menace of superior consequences tin marque a crippled consciousness existent to you and each different idiosyncratic successful the game," Luckey wrote.

Here are the specifics of the invention:

Palmer Luckey's creation

Luckey said that dissimilar the fictional mentation of NerveGear, helium could not fig retired however to termination the wearer with "powerful microwaves," instead, helium utilized explosives for his morbid creation.

"When an due game-over surface is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the encephalon of the user," Luckey wrote.

Luckey sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 cardinal successful 2014 and near the institution successful 2017. He aboriginal told CNBC helium believed helium was fired for "no crushed astatine all" and speculated that his right-wing governmental donations could person been to blame. Facebook, which is present Meta, disputed Palmer's claim, saying his departure was "unequivocally" not owed to his governmental beliefs.

As for his lethal headset, Luckey said it's conscionable a portion of bureau creation – for now.

"It is also, arsenic acold arsenic I know, the archetypal non-fiction illustration of a VR instrumentality that tin really termination the user. It won't beryllium the last," Luckey wrote.

"See you successful the metaverse," helium concluded.