Palmer Fortuna In 2014, when he was only 21, he sold his Oculus VR glasses company to Meta for three billion dollars. Since then, the tech guru has mainly focused on his military startup, but has now presented a development suitable for dystopian films, the licensing of which is sure to bring him problems. The American man has presented plans for a VR headset that can kill the user if he dies in the video game he is playing, he writes the Ars Technique.
According to the description, the charge is activated by means of a narrow band photosensor capable of detecting when the screen flashes red at a certain frequency. The specialist writes about it in his blog post, who has always been fascinated by the idea of connecting real life to virtual avatars. And with this solution, he says, he immediately raises the stakes to the maximum level and forces people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players in it.
Incidentally, the device was used in a number of books and anime, the Sword art online inspired by it, where players can control their game characters using a headset called NerveGear. According to the fictional story, on November 6, 2022, thousands of players will be trapped after being threatened with death if they die in the game or attempt to remove the headset. Interestingly, the anime aired just as the first Oculus Rift campaign launched on the crowdfunding site KickStarter.
