Virtual death = real death.

[LabR@t]

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/gaming/oculus-vr-headset-kills-wearer-b1038478.html?amp

The premise of having skin in the game has gone up a level with the invention of a virtual reality headset that contains ‘’explosives’’ rigged to ‘’explode’’ if the person who wears it loses during a video game.

Permanent vr, once the headset goes on you can't take it off and death in game means death in real life.

So would you?

I can see channel 4 picking this up in the future.

 

[glenimp617]

Stupid

 

[LabR@t]

Would it be murder or suicide?

 

[ci_newman]

I don't know why this is blowing up in the way that it is. Luckey literally describes it as "office art" concept based on a web comic from the 2000s

 

[Thekwango]

So would you?

Hmmm, let me think about it and get back to you…..

 

[m@rty]

Try it out and let us know the results

 

[robfosters]

With my CoD skills, I’d barely get the headset on before I became brain purée

 

[GIBURROWS]

Nothing more than a PR stunt.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Would it be murder or suicide?

Depends on if the person puts the VR headset on willingly or not.

 

[Stu999]

I don't know why this is blowing up in the way that it is. Luckey literally describes it as "office art" concept based on a web comic from the 2000s

Yep, why is it even in a newspaper.

 

[robfosters]

Yep, why is it even in a newspaper.

Have you ever read the Daily Star?

 

[GIBURROWS]

Yep, why is it even in a newspaper.

For £600 you can put any story in most newspapers ie Katie Price and the low level model influencer type lot.

 

[BDEE]

Someone has been reading "Otherworld" too much

 

[Stu999]

Have you ever read the Daily Star?

Just the pictures

 

[Cosimo]

What unnewsworthy nonsense!

 

[Feek]

Sounds like the sort of thing that would happen in Better Than Life.

 

[HungryHippos]

Sword Art Online becomes reality then.

 

[Thekwango]

And guaranteed some half wit somewhere will read this story and conclude that vr headsets read your mind and was the reason their neighbours dog died.

 

[dowie]

Would it be murder or suicide?

Murder or manslaughter.

Depends on if the person puts the VR headset on willingly or not.

Doubt it, even if they willingly agreed to it it's still someone else actively killing them... it's this basically:

And that has been illegal for a few centuries and would result in a murder or manslaughter charge AFAIK.

 

[Lysander]

I would so do this.