“Palmer Luckey, defense contractor and the father of modern virtual reality, has created a VR headset that will kill the user if they die in the game they’re playing.”
As the good lord intended.
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That’s my Christmas present sorted for my Brother-in-Law.
Tell me you’ve watched Sword Art Online without telling me you’ve watched Sword Art Online.
The next step is to implement ragdoll physics; the way your head blows up depends on how you died in the game.
What about real-life rewards? It might be worth risking your life against a few goblins and maybe an orc, if you wound up with a hundred gold pieces and maybe a healing potion.
Dunno.
This is basically the 21st century equivalent of a voodoo doll – hurt the doll, hurt the person. As I recall, they used those dolls to create pain or death, never to give somebody a new wife or vast riches.
A voodoo doll victim does’t usually stick the pin in himself. I guess this is really just fancy-schmancy Russian roulette.
Have they made this into an episode of Black Mirror yet?