Oculus founder makes a VR headset that will kill you

Looking for a video game worth dying for? Palmer Loki, Founder Virtual Reality a company skylightYou create a VR headset that actually kills the user if they die in-game.

“I’ve always been drawn to the idea of ​​connecting your real life to your virtual avatar – you immediately raise the stakes to the limit and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players within it,” wrote Loki. Blog post. “The massive graphics may make the game look more realistic, but only the threat of dire consequences makes the game feel real to you and everyone else in the game.”

The killer headset is inspired by the Japanese anime series sword art online, Where the characters wear the NeveGear VR headset and discover that a mad scientist has trapped them in a virtual world. Players have to make their way through a 100-story dungeon to escape, noting that if they die in the game, they die in real life.

Like a headset in sau, Luckey’s VR headset will respond to a specific screen of the game emitting a lethal level of microwave charge that instantly destroys the player’s brain. But that’s all the progress Luckey has made on the project; It still irons out kinks to make sure the headset, you know, doesn’t kill you without provocation or something.

“That is why I have not made the balls to use them myself, and also why I am convinced that, as in sawthe final trigger should already be associated with a high intelligence factor that can determine if the termination conditions are actually true,” Loki continued, adding that he also has plans for an “anti-tamper mechanism” to deter any coward.

Luckey’s blog post concludes: “At this point, it’s just a piece of desktop art, and a thought-provoking reminder of the unexplored ways in game design. It’s also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill a user. It wouldn’t. be the last.” Respectfully, we will pass this on.