SICK: Facebook Oculus Founder Claims to Invent VR Device that Can Kill the User in Real Life When they Lose in a Game
Oculus’s founder, who was subsequently terminated from his position at Facebook, claimed to develop a virtual reality (VR) headset that has the capability of bringing gamers’ deaths into the real world. In a blog post published November 6, Palmer Luckey, o...
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Reminds me a LOT of the movie “Surrogates”. Predictive programming?
exactly!
Someone in the marketing and advertising department needs to be fired. Wtf!? 🤦♀️
Indeed. Gateway pundit is spam central. More ads per pixel than I will tolerate.
Sounds like the Matrix.
The war on men is real.
So a real life Sword Art Online.
It vaccinates you.
He seems to miss the point of gaming and VR in general...to be able to momentarily escape to another world where you can do things that arent possible and/or would have devastating consequences in real life without actually risking your life and then return to real life to enjoy the feeling of having done those crazy things. Making your death in real life tied to your VR experience no longer allows for risk free escapism but merely just reverts your risk to being the same if you had done those things in real life. At that point you might as well take the risk in real life.
Upon being booted from his cushy position, Luckey (!) retreated to his lair, deep underneath an unnamed volcano, to plan his next assault on humanity.