Virtual reality can be a mindblowing experience, but Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is intending to take that description a little too far with his next headset. Luckey has created a new VR headset that can be used to play games, but it comes with an unfortunate side-effect: die in the game, and you’ll die in real life when the hardware self-destructs and takes a healthy chunk of your head with it.
Using three explosive charge modules mounted above the screen, the headset will detonate these devices if it registers your defeat in a game. You might want to avoid playing Superhot VR on this thing.
“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,” Luckey wrote in a blog post about the project. “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.”