Founder of virtual reality firm Oculus, Palmer Luckey, claims that he has designed a new headset that can kill players in real life if they die in a video game.
Luckey said in a recent blogpost that the design was inspired by Japanese novel-turned-anime Sword Art Online, in which players are trapped in an online role-playing game that kills them in real life if they die in-game, thanks to a technology called NerveGear.
“The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear,” Luckey said. “The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you. The perfect-VR half of the equation is still many years out.”
The Oculus founder says that the headset is designed as “office art,” noting that he hasn’t even tried it on himself out of fear of a miscalculation killing him.
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