Dylan Chaundy
Well, the creator behind the Oculus Rift VR headset Palmer Luckey has recently designed a brand new headset. The catch? If you die in the video game, you die in the real world. Yeah, I’m pretty sure that Charlie Brooker is hastily making notes of this right now in anticipation for his next season of Black Mirror!
Interestingly, the new headset is a sort of ode to Sword Art Online, which is a Japanese light novel franchise that was adapted into its own video game series back in 2013, with Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment. In a recent blog post, Palmer Luckey wrote in-depth about his newest conceptualisation, which he compared to the NerveGear – the name given to the helmet worn by players in Sword Art Online.
So, there you have it, folks. It sounds like Luckey is very interested in creating a NerveGear VR unit that could potentially “kill the user”. Frankly, it’s not something I’d personally be into, but different strokes, and all that!
The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. 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.
But what say you, though? Tell us, would you be down for a VR headset that could harm you in real life? And would you be okay playing a game that could actually kill you? Let us know in the usual place down below.
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