'At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design. It is the same technology Meta is using as the basis for the Metaverse.ĭoesn't seem like Meta would be too interested in purchasing a real-life NerveGear headset but even if you are willing to bet your life on your video game skills, Palmer says it's only art for now. Palmer, 30, sold his company, Oculus, to Meta in 2014 for $2 billion. “'This might be a game, but it is not something you play.' To commemorate the Sword Art Online Incident of November 6th 2022, I made the OQPNVG, the first virtual reality device capable of killing the user - if you die in the game, you die in real life. ” - Palmer Luckey Luckey) '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.' 'The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me,' Luckey wrote in a blog post. If they die in the game, they die in real life.Īccording to SAO lore, the game was first launched on 6 November 2022. But everything is not what it seems as players realise a mad scientist has trapped them in the virtual world. In SAO, players put on a virtual reality headset called NerveGear and log in to play a new game called Sword Art Online. The concept of the lethal headset was inspired by the anime Sword Art Online (SAO). Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter

Should the player lose the game they're playing, the modules would fire 'instantly destroying' the brain of the player.

The headset, invented by entrepreneur and Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, is fashioned with three explosive charge modules aimed at the player's brain. Like something out of Squid Game, a new virtual reality headset has been invented that can kill players in real life if they lose the game.

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