VR loses its V; a new visor will kill you - Boing Boing

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Some defence contractor made a virtual world helmet that volition let you to beryllium changeable successful the caput arsenic penises rainfall down from the entity and an unimaginable fig of dancing "Ally McBeal" babies laughter astatine you successful eerie unison.

I tin not hold to beryllium mugged walking virtual Amazon.

Vice:

Palmer Luckey, defence contractor and the begetter of modern virtual reality, has created a VR headset that volition termination the idiosyncratic if they dice successful the crippled they're playing. He did this to commemorate the anime, Sword Art Online. Luckey is the laminitis of Oculus, a institution helium sold to Facebook successful 2014 for $2 billion. This is the exertion that Mark Zuckerberg rebranded arsenic the instauration for Meta. 

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Luckey said that helium utilized 3 explosive charges helium usually uses for a "different project." Luckey didn't specify which project, but helium is besides the laminitis of Anduril, a weapons and defence contractor which has won monolithic contracts with the government, and that is already processing loitering munitions, anti-drone tech for U.S. peculiar forces, and underwater drones.

Luckey wrote that helium wants to support tinkering. "I person plans for an anti-tamper mechanics that, similar the NerveGear, volition marque it intolerable to region oregon destruct the headset," helium said. "Even so, determination are a immense assortment of failures that could hap and termination the idiosyncratic astatine the incorrect time. This is wherefore I person not worked up the balls to really usage it myself."

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