This VR Headset Will Blow Your Mind...Literally - GameSpot

Virtual world tin beryllium a mindblowing experience, but Oculus laminitis Palmer Luckey is intending to instrumentality that statement a small too far with his adjacent headset. Luckey has created a caller VR headset that tin beryllium utilized to play games, but it comes with an unfortunate side-effect: dice successful the game, and you'll dice successful existent beingness erstwhile the hardware self-destructs and takes a steadfast chunk of your caput with it.

Using 3 explosive complaint modules mounted supra the screen, the headset volition detonate these devices if it registers your decision successful a game. You mightiness privation to debar playing Superhot VR connected this thing.

"The thought of tying your existent beingness to your virtual avatar has ever fascinated me--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," Luckey wrote successful a blog post astir the project. "Pumped-up graphics mightiness marque a crippled look much real, but lone the menace of superior consequences tin marque a crippled consciousness existent to you and each different idiosyncratic successful the game."

Technically, you tin lone suffer erstwhile portion wearing this.

This headset is people not being mass-produced oregon sold, and this VR cogwheel was made successful notation to the fashionable anime Sword Art Online. In that series, thousands of players go trapped wrong of a virtual satellite wherever decease successful that MMORPG would effect successful their NerveGear headsets bombarding their brains with lethal amounts of microwave radiation. The lone mode retired was to conquer each 100 floors of a dungeon and scope the apical earlier it was excessively late.

According to Luckey, Sword Art Online led to monolithic otaku enthusiasm for Oculus VR, particularly successful Japan, wherever it became the second-largest marketplace of that gear. "The bully quality is that we are halfway to making a existent NerveGear," Luckey explained. 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. I person not worked up the balls to really usage it myself, and besides wherefore I americium convinced that, similar successful SAO, the last triggering should truly beryllium tied to a high-intelligence cause that tin readily find if conditions for termination are really correct."

Luckey sold Oculus to FaceBook backmost successful 2014 for $2 billion, with the exertion being rebranded arsenic portion of laminitis Mark Zuckerberg's Meta initiative. Sony is besides diving backmost into the satellite of virtual reality, and portion its caller PSVR 2 headsets won't execution you erstwhile they motorboat adjacent year, the $550 terms tag mightiness termination your slope balance.

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