Oculus VR founder and designer of the Oculus Rift , Palmer Luckey , has unveil his latestvirtual reality(VR ) masterpiece : A headset that stool certain that if you die in the game , you die in real life .
Luckey explained in ablog postthat he was halfway to completing his headset ( which he has called NerveGear ) – specifically , the half that will make the player beat .
The headset is fundamentally a regularVR headsethooked up to three explosive charges . The charges , fitted with a photosensor , are set to go off and kill the thespian when they break down in whatever telecasting game they are playing ( touch : possibly chooseAnimal Crossingrather thanDark Souls ) . The explosives would be triggered to kill you when the screen flashes scarlet at a specific frequence , which game designers would have to implement into the biz .
" The idea of tie your real life to your practical embodiment has always fascinated me – you instantly raise the stakes to the maximal floor and force masses to essentially rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it , " Luckey write .
" Pumped up graphics might make a biz look more genuine , but only the scourge of serious consequences can make a game find real to you and every other person in the game . This is an area of videogame mechanics that has never been explored , despite the long history of real - macrocosm sports revolving around similar interest . "
Luckey , who created the machine as an homage to the novel and anime seriesSword Art Online , which use like tech as a assumption , says he has n’t yet " worked up the balls " to habituate it yet .
He take note it ’s also not finished yet , add : " This is n’t a thoroughgoing system , of course . I have plans for an anti - tamper mechanism that , like the NerveGear , will make it impossible to take out or put down the headset . "
Luckey pronounce , rather ominously , that the headset is " at this spot " just a piece of art , but that it ’s also the first VR twist he ’s cognizant of exterior of fiction that is capable of stamp out the exploiter .
" It wo n’t be the last , " he drop a line , " see you in theMetaverse " .
