Billionaire founder of the Oculus virtual reality and military technology company Anduril, Palmer Luckey, had designed an VR headset that puts a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘mind-blowing.’ Luckey’s new design seeks to further innovate the metaverse field by debuting a headset that essentially gives the user a neurological shock to the brain if their avatar dies or suffers a crippling injury while playing a game.
Luckey sold Oculus years ago to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (formerly known as Facebook at the time of the sale), to the tune of almost $2 billion, but was later fired by Facebook three years after the deal, reportedly because he made a relatively small contribution to an anti-Hilary Clinton campaign group. He then later funded Texas Representative Ted Cruz’s campaign. Luckey is now the founder of a high-tech military contracting company called Anduril.
Stuckey debuted this new ‘killer’ headset on November 6th on his official blog site, titled, “If you die in the game, you die in real life.”
Here is what he had to say about it in full:
Today is November 6th, 2022, the day of the SAO Incident. Thousands of VRMMORPG gamers were trapped by a mad scientist inside a death game that could only be escaped through completion. If their hit points dropped to zero, their brain would be bombarded by extraordinarily powerful microwaves, supposedly killing the user. The same would happen if anyone in the real world tampered with their NerveGear, the virtual reality head-mounted-display that transported their minds and souls to Aincrad, the primary setting of Sword Art Online.
This type of scenario has been a staple of science-fiction for decades, but Sword Art Online exploded in popularity at exactly the right time to have a massive impact on the real world. The already-popular web novel was adapted into an anime series that aired just as the Oculus Rift went from internet forum curiosity for turbonerds to siren of the games industry, endorsed by giants like John Carmack, Gabe Newell, and Cliff Bleszinski – the 4th episode of SAO, “The Black Swordsman” (黒の剣士) aired in Japan just as the Kickstarter for the Oculus Rift DK1 launched!
The popularity of SAO led to massive otaku enthusiasm for Oculus, especially in Japan, which quickly became our 2nd largest market. In turn, the existence of the Rift made SAO itself seem far more plausible and grounded – a story that had been written in a world where VR was a dead technology was now straight out of the gamer hype headlines. This synergy had meaningful impact on our dev kit sales and adoption – literally thousands of people reached out to me asking variations of “Have you seen Sword Art Online? When will you make the NerveGear real?!”. The Oculus SDK was the closest thing to SAO’s World Seed, a software tool that enabled anyone to create incredible VR worlds.
There are dozens of stories I could tell, many of them worth a post of their own. How we ended up with a Kirito mural on the wall of the first Oculus office, how it was eventually moved to Facebook HQ, why it was removed shortly after I was fired. Personally showing Oculus DK2 to Reki Kawahara at Anime Expo, my wife meeting him while cosplaying as Sinon at the next Anime Expo, getting into minutiae of SAO canon at the Hollywood premiere of SAO: Ordinal Scale, the audience screaming as Yuuki came back from the dead to perform a two-user Mother’s Rosario attack combo with Asuna against the 100th floor boss of Aincrad. Arguing with people who only watched the anime about the supposed plot and tech holes, explaining that the anime was only ever meant to act as a companion piece for fans of the novel series that so frequently predicts the future of AR, VR, AI, and more. The beautiful wedding gift from Kawahara-san that shows he is a double-threat writer/artist combo!
But that isn’t what you are here for. You want NerveGear, the incredible device that perfectly recreates reality using a direct neural interface that is also capable of killing the user. The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me – 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. Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game. This is an area of videogame mechanics that has never been explored, despite the long history of real-world sports revolving around similar stakes.
The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you. The perfect-VR half of the equation is still many years out.
In SAO, the NerveGear contained a microwave emitter that could be overdriven to lethal levels, something the creator of SAO and the NerveGear itself (Akihiko Kayaba) was able to hide from his employees, regulators, and contract manufacturing partners. I am a pretty smart guy, but I couldn’t come up with any way to make anything like this work, not without attaching the headset to gigantic pieces of equipment. In lieu of this, I used three of the explosive charge modules I usually use for a different project, tying them to a narrow-band photosensor that can detect when the screen flashes red at a specific frequency, making game-over integration on the part of the developer very easy. When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user.
This isn’t a perfect system, of course. I have plans for an anti-tamper mechanism that, like the NerveGear, will make it impossible to remove or destroy the headset. Even so, there are a huge variety of failures that could occur and kill the user at the wrong time. This is why I have not worked up the balls to actually use it myself, and also why I am convinced that, like in SAO, the final triggering should really be tied to a high-intelligence agent that can readily determine if conditions for termination are actually correct.
At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design. It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user. It won’t be the last.
See you in the metaverse.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 8:36
Ah yes, this is what “human evolution” looks like: peak “intelligence,” per the world’s perception of it, always ends in death and bloodshed –“Destruction and misery are in their ways,” Romans 3:16 says.
I mean, this man is literally saying he wants to pop your head like a water balloon using microwave technology!
And this is all fun and games, right?
[18] As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, [19] So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? Proverbs 26:18-19
So just in case you needed some more evidence as to why the metaverse – ‘meta’ meaning “death” in Hebrew – is evil and is to be avoided at all costs, here you go. If this madman has openly boasted of this evil invention, God only knows what else they have in secret or plan to develop…
How The Antichrist Metaverse Will Control People’s Senses And Brain Functions
NFT Expert Says Poor People Will Serve As ‘Real-Life NPCs In Games And The Metaverse
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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WOW, unbelievable, people have lost their minds! I bet there will be lines 5 miles long to get this thing.
the mark of the beast will surely tie into killing yourself in a fake virtual world, and dying for real. This is crazy
Absolutely it will, and just think when the noisome and grievous sore on those who took the mark of the beast takes place during the seventh vial, I’ll bet there’ll be a connection.
People are absolutely insane! They all sound like they need to get therapy. This should be called some kind of disease, mental illness. It is definitely the devolution of mankind!
I don’t therapy will help, Cynthia. The help of man is vain, most therapists like psychiatrists and psychologists use humanistic man-centered philosophy that has atheism as its core value.
What they need is the King James Bible and repentance.
Nobody with at least 1/4 of a brain should ever want to sign up for this suicide in disguise.
That is terrifying and absolutely menacing as well as ominous! A metaverse video game where you die in real life if you lose and it microwaves your brain like the egg in the microwave…another and much more tremendous reason to stay away from the metaverse.
Unfortunately I’m a bit too familiar with the Sword Art Online Anime as back when it first air I was much too loose in what i chose to do for “entertainment” during my “Free time.” I most certainly wouldn’t recommend a Christian watch the show.
That being said, I’m not too surprised that someone would try to create a death-game capable vr headset. Disappointed, yes, but not surprised, man is not only exceedingly wicked, but beyond stupid in my observations of late.
Yes, beyond stupid indeed.
People who are looking forward to this amazing invention for narrowing the soul will probably like this too.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348355577_Electromagnetic-Based_Wireless_Nano-Sensors_Network_Architectures_and_Applications
(Jan 2021)
“Recent advances in nano-materials and nanotechnology have paved the way for building integrated devices with a nanometric size, named nano-nodes. These nano-nodes are composed of nano-processor, nano-memory, nano-batteries, nano-transceiver, nano-antenna and nano-sensors, which operate at nano-scale level.
They are able to perform simple tasks, such as sensing, computing and actuation. The interconnection between microdevices and nanonodes/nanosensors has enabled the development of a new network standard, called Wireless Nano-Sensors Network (WNSN). This paper provides an in-depth review of WNSN, its architectures, application areas, and challenges, which need to be addressed, while identifying opportunities for their implementation in various application domains.”
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Driss-El-Ouadghiri/publication/348355577/figure/fig4/AS:978070009815042@1610201470153/The-WBAN-based-medical-care-in-a-hospital-environment-The-main-goals-of-WNSN-healthcare.ppm
Unless they’ve already protected themselves from the deadly virus..
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2018.00012/full
Interfacing Graphene-Based Materials With Neural Cells (2018)
They worship the karmic god of death. They proudly embrace their inner darkness, their sin…and outer darkness with their yin-yang, white magic/black magic stuff & their supposedly superior knowledge & Craft, MYSTERY initiation & advancement, ascension through death ….any means to the end, doing evil that good might come: lying vanities and corrupt imaginations totally capitulating to 2 Peter 2&3, Jude licentiousness…..as in the days of Noe and Lot.
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This is where it leads. And intellect isn’t the issue: pride, heart and spirit are. Going beyond the rush of real daredevilish stunts, often paying quite well (1 Timothy 6 KJB) advancing a body & soul surely towards destruction….Houdini, the Australian croc chaser & whatever…etc……to the rush & dying for fantasies, pretense. Craft idolatries all of it: top to bottom and bottom to top, head to tail and tail to head.
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The following was given of God to the prophets, written to Israel before the Assyrian judgment, and to Judah before the Babylonian…and with future application as well for the time of Jacob’s trouble, Daniel’s 70th week. The principles stand, however, for all the people of God, including those of this dispensation….and anything free or biblical in America stands in the way of the final fulfillment, with way too many Jews still blessed & comfortable here…even with the increasingly open Jew hate. She is being sifted, having squandered her strength & source of blessing in the pattern of Romans 9-11 and 1 Peter 4:17 KJB.
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Woe to the world when she falls, for what will remain will be solely & purely antichrist….and part of God’s judgment on not just complacent & presuming Americans, but upon the worldlings who don’t hate the wickedness & licentiousness of America so much as what remains letting & hindering their exponential & progressive wickedness. Bloody, imperious, covert & deceitful, thieving, lying MYSTERY & the beast will be all that remain in the visible: we have no king but Caesar…now melded into the man of sin & antichrist placeholder over there in Rome, & his system.
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Isa 9:8 ¶ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isa 9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Isa 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isa 9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
Isa 9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
Isa 9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Isa 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isa 9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Isa 9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isa 9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Isa 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Isa 9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Isa 10:1 ¶ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Isa 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isa 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
Isa 10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 10:5 ¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Isa 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Isa 10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Isa 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isa 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Isa 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Isa 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Isa 10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
Isa 10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Isa 10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Isa 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isa 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isa 10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
Isa 10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Isa 10:20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isa 10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Isa 10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Isa 10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
too bad I have to post after some dude cut&paste a freaking book of babble that none will read … BUT here it goes
Sword Art Online was a very fun anime and brought some excellent concepts forward about total immersion VR then later Immersion AR. The plot theme of “kills you” and the players trapped in the game was the initial season (anime) and not the goal of the series. The third series, “Sword Art Online: Alicization” really amps it up and brings out some incredible questions and challenges.
If you enjoy anime and not bound by a religious spirit that makes you a modern day Pharisee, then I would recommend checking out the series.
We are not modern day Pharisees that will be church buildings and fake christians.
If you’re referring to the King James Bible, how dare you refer to it as a “book of babble!” It’s the true word of God.
We don’t watch anime, we don’t have time for that insanity which most of it is overly violent or gory, has sexual images, and some of it is rooted in the occult.
Get saved, the time is at hand!