Oculus Founder Makes VR Headset That Will Actually Kill You If You Die In A Game - Forbes

No, this is not a header that reflects Mark Zuckerberg afloat losing his caput to his pursuit of the metaverse. Rather, we are talking astir Palmer Luckey, the archetypal laminitis of Oculus VR who sold his institution to Facebook, and has been chiefly moving connected nationalist defence tech ever since his departure.

While he’s had thing to bash with Zuckerberg’s flailing metaverse ambitions arsenic of late, that does not mean helium isn’t inactive doing weird and successful this case, genuinely insane things with VR each the same.

Luckey has present made a customized VR headset that volition termination a subordinate if they dice successful a video game. Like, literally. It volition termination you.

Describing the headset successful his blog, Luckey details however helium made a Sword Art Online-style “you dice successful the game, you dice successful existent life” headset. His mentation is simply a VR headset that is laced with charges that volition detonate “destroying the encephalon of the user” if they trigger an “appropriate crippled over” screen.

Luckey laments that he’s lone halfway to designing existent “NerveGear,” the Sword Art Online tech:

"The bully quality is that we are halfway to making a existent NerveGear," helium said. "The atrocious quality is that truthful far, I person lone figured retired the fractional that kills you. The perfect-VR fractional of the equation is inactive galore years out."

Luckey revealed the deadly headset connected November 6, wherever November 6, 2022 is the time the archetypal NerveGear acceptable was activated successful SAO. No coincidence, clearly.

No, nary 1 is really playing games connected the thing. Luckey has not adjacent tried the headset connected himself, lest immoderate benignant of miscalculation connected his portion accidentally termination him, crippled implicit surface oregon not. Luckey conscionable describes it arsenic a portion of “office art” and claims that it’s the lone VR headset successful beingness that tin termination the user, which I person to judge is existent unless a real-life Jigsaw slayer is retired determination designing 1 for his latest trap to thatch immoderate addicted gamer a lesson.

Murderous video games are a longtime pursuit for Luckey, who talked astir this implicit a twelvemonth ago:

Given that VR tech is inactive trying to interruption past a niche to get radical to play games that are really fun, the thought that we are barreling toward immoderate benignant of Sword Art dystopia wherever users are signing up to play games that person the imaginable to termination you does…not look plausible. Even Sword Art Online had to instrumentality its players into being trapped with NerveGear, it’s not similar they were going astir selling VR headsets with execution imaginable written up arsenic a feature.

As ever, Palmer Luckey is…something else. I look guardant to him hosting his archetypal Bloodsport tourney connected a backstage land oregon immoderate weird happening emerges adjacent from his brain.

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