Modern virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey claims he created a VR headset that would instantly destroy the user’s brain with explosive charge modules if the player’s character dies in the game. “If you die in the game,” Luckey wrote in his Monday blog post. “You die in real life.” Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift, said tying the life of a gamer to their virtual avatar has always fascinated him. “You instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the...