The Matrix is one of several pieces of sci-if media in which those who die inside a virtual world also die in real life, a trope Luckey.
WTF?! It sounds as if Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus, might be spending too much time at Anduril Industries, the defense technology company he founded after leaving Facebook. The VR luminary has created a new headset, though it’s unlikely to be something you’d want to try: if a user dies in the virtual world, the device kills them in the real world using explosives.
The Matrix is one of several pieces of sci-if media in which those who die inside a virtual world also die in real life, a trope Luckey discusses in his blog post. He references an incident from Sword Art Online (SAO), a mid-2000s series of Japanese novels that spawned anime, video games, and more. According to the fiction, an « SAO Incident » took place on November 6, 2022, in which 10,000 players were trapped in a VRMMORPG, 4,000 of whom died in real life after their characters perished in the game.
