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Virtual Reality Gamer Slips And Dies From Blood Loss After Falling On Glass Table
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Posted on 12/24/2017 7:36:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
"According to preliminary information, the man was moving around his apartment in virtual reality goggles and fell on a glass table, as a result of which he was injured and died from loss of blood at the scene," the spokesperson said according to the state news agency.
The Ukranian Russian language website Korrespondent.net reported that the virtual reality game had not been properly mapped to the dimensions of the man’s apartment, possibly causing the accident.
His body was reportedly discovered by his mother when she came to the apartment to visit. Further investigations into the circumstances of the man’s death are ongoing. It is believed the man is the first to have died in an virtual reality related incident in Moscow.
The gaming blog Kotaku reported last year that far from being completely risk free, virtual reality gaming carried a number of potential dangers. One game developer explained that the brain could quickly adapt to virtual environments making real life hazards harder to perceive.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gamer; reality; virtual; virtualreality
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:36:38 AM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
So no automatic respawning when you lose?
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:43:03 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
To: BenLurkin
Virtual reality meets reality.
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:44:55 AM PST
by
PROCON
(Merry Christmas and Happy Trump Year!)
To: KarlInOhio
No app for gaping chest wounds?
To: KarlInOhio
Game over, man! Game over!
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:48:53 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BenLurkin
I don't think virtual reality will be the next big thing. I think augmented reality will be until we get real highspeed mobile internets and lots more processing power and speed in our handheld units.
Augmented Reality is already catching on with Apps Like Pokemon and the new Harry Potter mobile game that is set to debut soon.
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:48:54 AM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: BradyLS
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:49:31 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:53:31 AM PST
by
gibsonguy
To: BradyLS
NO MORE VIRTUAL REALITY FOR ANYONE!! YOU’LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT!!!
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/24/2017 7:58:07 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
To: Dr. Pritchett
(A Christmas Story, the Narrator) “An icycle, yes an icycle! Quickly, I scrounged up some tears...”
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posted on
12/24/2017 8:04:36 AM PST
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
To: BenLurkin
Glass tables are generally bad news. I know a friend who sliced his leg open on one in his home.
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posted on
12/24/2017 8:11:52 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: BenLurkin
So his game was virtually over.
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posted on
12/24/2017 8:18:17 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
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posted on
12/24/2017 8:27:42 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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12/24/2017 8:45:50 AM PST
by
Ueriah
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/24/2017 8:47:31 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: BenLurkin
A 44 year old man so wrapped up in computer games that no one realized he had died until his mother went looking for him. Sounds very sad.
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posted on
12/24/2017 8:59:58 AM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: BenLurkin
Time to build a holodeck.
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posted on
12/24/2017 9:04:07 AM PST
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
To: a fool in paradise
We have grandkids. Not a glass table in the house for about 20 years. And I tend to buy stuff that is almost indestructible. Lol
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posted on
12/24/2017 9:17:02 AM PST
by
sheana
To: KarlInOhio
"So no automatic respawning when you lose?" Yeah, what a bummer that must have been!
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posted on
12/24/2017 9:52:16 AM PST
by
StormEye
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