The Oculus founder who was later fired by Facebook created a VR headset that can kill people in real life if they die in a game

The stakes of losing in video games have been raised by Palmer Luckey.

The original creator of the Oculus headset, which now serves as the backbone for Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions, wrote in a post that he had modified a virtual reality headset to explode when the wearer loses in a video game.

"If you die in the game, you die in real life," Luckey wrote in a post titled "If you die in the game, you die in real life"

You instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it, only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you.

The details of the invention are listed here.