Tuesday, November 8th 2022
Diabolical New VR Headset is Designed to Kill its User IRL if Killed In-game
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey designed a new VR headset that adds the ultimate layer of realism to VR—mortality. Thought to be relegated to dystopian cyberpunk fiction, this new headset comes with the ability to literally kill its user if killed in-game. Its design involves an Oculus Quest Pro, with explosive charges strapped to the forehead, which activate when the headset receives a specific pattern of red color flashes from the game's display-head, to a photo receiver (typically the "Game Over" screen). There's already a concept for a game designed for this.
Mortality replaces visual fidelity and photorealism (or other forms of sensory realism); as the most powerful stimulus. You play the game like your life depends on it—which it literally does. You're in an MMO playing against another human in an unpausable PvP game, where the consequence of losing the duel is losing your head in real life. But first, the good news—the cursed thing isn't in mass-production, and while the US-FDA has approved for certain kinds of pain-stimulating gaming peripherals, it didn't approve killing the user. The product will have to pass through a long line of political, legislative, legal, and philosophical hurdles before it's released to market as something you can buy. Please don't.
Source:
Arstechnica
Mortality replaces visual fidelity and photorealism (or other forms of sensory realism); as the most powerful stimulus. You play the game like your life depends on it—which it literally does. You're in an MMO playing against another human in an unpausable PvP game, where the consequence of losing the duel is losing your head in real life. But first, the good news—the cursed thing isn't in mass-production, and while the US-FDA has approved for certain kinds of pain-stimulating gaming peripherals, it didn't approve killing the user. The product will have to pass through a long line of political, legislative, legal, and philosophical hurdles before it's released to market as something you can buy. Please don't.
73 Comments on Diabolical New VR Headset is Designed to Kill its User IRL if Killed In-game
But still... thinking about such a device to* put it in dystopian arts is something interesting, but even thinking about putting this "thing" in the real world, no no :eek: :shadedshu::eek:
palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/dudes wack and just trying to live out his anime fantasy.
Humans should learn their limits, but we only do after the fact; ethics are a thing of the past anyway, commerce rules, and apparently 'that's fine' to a vast majority. We reap what we sow.
The great part is if killed you can't play anymore games so this better be cheap :cool:
It worked.It's real but will never be marketed thank god.
SAO also does not "contain a setting for this," it's an Anime about a fake game, not a game, it's a friggin case of read the entire article and not just the header. btarunr didn't.No. The romans tried this and it was awful.
This reminds me of the news about that guy who sold his dead mother's body to the US army so they strapped it to a chair, put explosives below and blew it to pieces in some sort of hostage rescue simulation. Guess the soldiers couldn't save the hostage.
what the actual fudge did i just read ...
is what i exclaimed out loud after reading the article ... (to be mild and censored a bit ... ) result ... i hear a dog barking on the balcony under mine ... ohhhh f. i thought since the school holidays were over i would have peace and quiet again ... oh, well ... hum... do they do that headset in familly pack including pets? (joking joking ... )
although, nonetheless a imho case, SAO is bottom barrel (in term of design and creativity) and i still struggle to understand why that one is so popular ... oh well ... tastes and wastes, wait ... tastes and color i mean.
It's not intended for use, except as some form of artistic exploration of the ultimate reality of what VR could be.
i swear ... it's been years that i am off the stuff ... promise!!!
2020 was a nightmare, because of that, with the lockdowns ... 5 month of it and the one from above my apartment where here each time, despite the federal recommendation to stay at home/in their canton.
kids running hitting the heel as hard as they can all day long from 7am to 10pm, moving furnitures without precautions every 5-10 minutes ... and so on so on ... o_O