These VR glasses can kill you in real life
Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey has developed VR glasses that can kill users. Because: If they die in the game, the headset causes the forebrain of the wearer to explode.
When it comes to gaming, opinions differ. But how dangerous is gambling really? Palmer Luckey, developer of the Oculus Rift VR headset, now apparently wants to bring the dangers of gaming closer.
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VR glasses that kill players?
Luckes has on his blog recently introduced new VR glasses that can kill players when gaming in real life. “If you die in game, you die in real life,” he captioned his post.
Explosive charges on VR glasses destroy users’ brains
The deadly VR glasses look like a Meta Quest Pro. However, it differs immensely from other devices of its kind. Because it is equipped with three explosive charge modules.
Luckey attached the explosive parts with a narrow-band photo sensor. If the screen on which the players are gambling flashes red at a certain frequency, the headset recognizes that the game is lost. Then the explosive charges are detonated and, according to Lucky, destroy the users’ brains.
The idea of merging real life with the virtual avatar has always intrigued me – you instantly up the ante and force people to change the way they interact with the virtual world and the players in it, to be fundamentally reconsidered.
Explosive charges in stock
Apparently he had the explosive charges that Luckey attached to his VR model in stock. Normally he would use them for another project, the developer writes in his post. He did not specify exactly what it was about.
However, the VR fan is also the founder of Anduril, a weapons and defense company working with the US, UK and Australian governments. In the course of this work, Luckey has already developed munitions, anti-drone technology and underwater drones.
Deadly VR Goggles Inspired by Anime Series
The deadly VR glasses are said to be a homage to the anime series “Sword Art Online”, or SAO for short. In it, players put on a so-called NerveGear VR headset and log into the game called SAO.
Shortly thereafter, the players realize that a mad scientist is holding them captive inside. In order to escape, they must complete the game. The crux of the matter: whoever dies in the fictional world also dies in reality.
“The bad news is I’ve only figured out the half that’s killing you so far.”
Apparently, Luckey was so enthralled with the SAO storyline that he quickly built his own deadly VR headset. It’s an area of video game mechanics that hasn’t been explored, although real-world sports have long existed that deal with similar things, the inventor said.
The good news is that we’re halfway to a true NerveGear. The bad news is that I’ve only figured out the half that’s killing you so far. The perfect VR half of the equation is many years away.
Developer doesn’t dare to use his deadly VR glasses himself
The system is not yet perfect, Luckey writes in his post. There are still a multitude of errors that could appear and kill users at the wrong time. That’s why he didn’t dare to use the VR glasses himself.
“At this point, it’s just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking quest for uncharted avenues in game design,” said the developer. But it is not the first non-fictional example of a VR device actually killing users. “And it won’t be the last.”
Oculus inventor controversy
Palmer Luckey is all for it knownthat he sold Oculus to Facebook for about $2 billion in 2014. He was fired three years later amid controversy over his political donations and financial support for far-right groups.
Luckey ends his blog post on the deadly VR glasses with the words “See you in the Metaverse”. No thanks, maybe not.
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