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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey created a VR headset that kills you if you die in the game

"The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me"

Newsroom November 8 02:46

It’s an old trope in a lot of dumb sci-fi movies that involve virtual reality: you die in the game, you die in real life. In said movies, characters get trapped in a video game and must play for their lives. If their avatar perishes, so do they.

Well, it appears that someone has actually willed this trope into reality. That is, someone created a VR headset that literally kills you if you lose a video game. Fun, right?

The creator is not just any ol’ someone, but Palmer Luckey, the 30-year-old virtual reality wunderkind, defense contractor, Trump-funder, and co-founder of Oculus, the VR firm Facebook bought in 2014 for a cool $3 billion.

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Luckey dropped a blog post on Sunday, explaining his weird new headset—which he claims is mostly a “piece of office art” for now—and included a picture of it as well.

Read more: Gizmodo

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