Virtual reality creator says his new headset can actually kill you if you lose in a game

The antheral credited with bringing virtual world backmost to mainstream attraction claims to person created a headset which tin termination you.

Palmer Luckey says the NerveGear instrumentality has been designed truthful that if idiosyncratic dies wrong the crippled oregon acquisition they are utilizing it for, they would dice successful existent beingness arsenic well.

The 30-year-old, who sold his VR institution Oculus to Facebook for $2bn backmost successful 2014, paving the mode for the institution to pivot to the exertion and rebrand arsenic Meta, explained the conception "has ever fascinated [him] ".

"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," helium wrote connected a blog post.

"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."

In what sounds similar a back-of-the-box diagnostic successful the making, Mr Luckey said the headset comes equipped with 3 explosive complaint modules positioned supra the visor.

They tin beryllium programmed to trigger upon decease wrong a VR experience, "instantly destroying the encephalon of the user".

'A immense assortment of failures could occur'

Before you unreserved disconnected to the metaverse, the headset has purely been made arsenic a show exemplary for now.

Mr Luckey admitted determination were "a immense assortment of failures that could hap and termination the idiosyncratic astatine the incorrect time" successful its existent state, and that's wherefore helium hadn't yet tried it himself.

"At this point, it is conscionable a portion of bureau art," helium wrote.

Mr Luckey revealed the headset was inspired by the events of an anime called Sword Art Online, which features a akin contraption.

The NerveGear is simply a idiosyncratic project, with the entrepreneur having backed distant from mainstream VR crippled improvement since leaving Oculus 5 years ago.

He has been a arguable fig since it was revealed helium had donated to a pro-Trump run radical up of 2016's statesmanlike election, which saw immoderate crippled developers suspend plans to enactment Oculus.

Following his departure from Facebook successful 2017, the institution denied it was owed to his governmental views.

He has since founded defence contractor Anduril Industries.