It’s a technology that takes us a little too far back into real life. Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, one of the largest virtual reality headset companies in the market, it has announced on his blog having built a somewhat strange prototype.
Palmer Luckey has created a virtual reality helmet in which death is not virtual. concretely, if the player who plays a video game with these headphones dies in the game, they die in real life.
It’s in the helmet three explosives. Palmer Luckey explains on his blog: “When you see Game Over written, the charges explode, instantly destroying the user’s brain”.
This headset is inspired by the game Sword Art Online, a novel adapted as a series which tells the story of a video game in the real world where players die if they lose.
“The idea of connecting your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me,” explains Palmer Luckey. You immediately raise the stakes to the max and forcing people to fundamentally rethink the way they interact with the virtual world and the players within it”.
This helmet is not intended for marketing, its creator sees it more as a work of art but concludes by saying that it is the first virtual reality object capable of killing its user… and certainly not the last.
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