Palmer Luckey, one of the founders of Oculus,which produces virtual reality (VR) headsets, has created a new model. Its peculiarity is that it kills the user in reality if he dies in an online game.
In his blog, Palmer Luckey said thatinspired him to create virtual reality headsets in general and a new model in particular. It all comes down to an anime game called Sword Art Online. In talking about the “killer headset,” Palmer refers to a version of SOA called “Incident.” In the story, a mad scientist lures thousands of players into a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG). It turns out that this is a death trap from which the only way to escape is to fight and defeat the others. The participant starts the game with a certain number of hit points. When they reach zero, the NerveGear VR headset emits “extremely powerful microwaves,” killing the player.
In Palmer's version of NerveGear, insteadexplosive charges are used. They are directed towards the player's head and will go off when he loses in the virtual world. The charges are connected to a narrow-band photosensor that detects red flashes of a certain frequency on the headset display and is triggered, instantly killing the user.
The typeface in the fictional work killsplayer if he tries to interfere with her work. Palmer also wants to add this feature to his model. According to the blog post, he wants to make sure the threat “becomes as real as possible.”
The threat from the device is so real thatPalmer didn't pluck up the courage to try on the headset. Even outside the game, it can simply fail. That's why the engineer wants to attach a highly intelligent function to the device that will ensure that all the necessary criteria are met before the charges are fired.
In addition to this, a virtual reality component that matches this level of hardware will be many years away, Palmer admits.
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