Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has produced a virtual reality headgear that willfully murders people.
The technology, called “NerveGear,” works to connect people’s actual life and virtual life by ending both at the same time.
According to Mr. Luckey, if a person is murdered while using the headgear for a virtual reality game or experience, they will also be killed simultaneously in real life.
Developers may simply incorporate the system since it achieves this by spotting the exact shade of red that appears when a person passes away. Three explosive modules detonate when the red appears, “instantly killing the user’s brain.”
According to Mr. Luckey, the system is still not complete. He wants to make it hard for users to take off or damage the headgear, trapping them inside virtual reality.
He said in a blog post unveiling the new system that he had yet to use it himself due to the design’s limits and the possibility that it may malfunction and kill people at the wrong moment.
While acknowledging that the gadget at this time is “simply a piece of office art,” Mr. Luckey said he intended for it to provoke discussion about game design. But he said that although it appears to be the first instance of such a system, “it won’t be the last.”
In the blog post announcing the “NerveGear,” Mr. Luckey wrote, “The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me – you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it.”
Only the possibility of catastrophic repercussions may make a game feel genuine to you and every other player in the game. “Pumped up visuals might make a game look more realistic. Despite the lengthy history of real-world sports centered around comparable stakes, this area of videogame mechanics has never been investigated.
The equipment’s name is derived from a fictional technology that was invented on the same day as the events of the anime Sword Art Online, and it was made to memorialize those events. Players in SAO must battle their way out of a virtual dungeon; but, if they are unsuccessful, they will actually perish.
Most notably, Mr. Luckey is credited with founding the virtual reality business Oculus and its initial headsets. In 2014, Meta and later Facebook purchased the business, and the two have since been gradually combined.
Despite Facebook’s repeated denials that Mr. Luckey’s firing was due to his pro-Trump political beliefs, he departed the business in 2017 under criticism.
Since that time, Mr. Luckey has continued to remain interested in virtual reality while concentrating on defense technology. Mr. Luckey may be referring to that work because he stated in his blog post that NerveGear was created using “explosive charge modules I typically employ for a separate project.”
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