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A man in Moscow has died while (or due to) wearing a VR-headset. Apparently while wearing it he stumbled around his apartment and fell over a glass table, cut himself and bled out. No information is available on what he was watching or playing. So VR goggles will soon have to come with some kind of warning label? Real world items may hamper VR experience and cause death?
"According to preliminary information, while moving around the apartment in virtual reality glasses, the man tripped and crashed into a glass table, suffered wounds and died on the spot from a loss of blood"
It must have been a fairly serious cut if you bleed out almost instantly and die on the spot. Did he decapitate himself or something?
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Also at Newsweek.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 24 2017, @10:33AM (8 children)
Jugular vein, stab to the aorta, femoral artery, just for starters. "died on the spot" doesn't necessarily mean that he bled out in less than a minute, either. He may have attempted to reach his phone, stumbled, tried again, and stumbled. Maybe he spent more than a couple minutes searching for his phone, but it was knocked under the sofa or some such.
Not a pleasant way to die, but at least he didn't suffer for months or years in a hospital. Remember 'Grouchy Old Men'? Lucky bastard!
It does seem odd that he had a glass table that was so easy to break. We had one when we were first married. I came into the house to find my middle son beating on it with a cast iron skillet. I don't know how long he had been beating on it, but I heard, and then saw him hit it a couple good licks. That glass was pretty damned sturdy! We got rid of that table for fear of what COULD have happened.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 24 2017, @01:03PM (1 child)
> That glass was pretty damned sturdy!
There's glass, and then there is Glass and even GLASS. Visit Corning Museum of Glass for some amazing demos of various kinds of toughened glass.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday December 25 2017, @12:35AM
but Corning was unable to sell it.
But decades later they got a call from Steve Jobs asking if they made a really tough glass.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday December 24 2017, @02:13PM
Actually exsanguination is considered mostly painless baring the actual cause. This was brought up during some Kosher flame-war where some ER doc linked multiple journal reports that detailed how people doing dialysis and the like that had their central venous catheter fail and came very close to bleeding out (but survived) specifically mentioned not feeling pain or even major discomfort with a few mentioning they felt cold.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by deadstick on Sunday December 24 2017, @05:57PM
Or simply being knocked unconscious, maybe with liquor or other drugs abetting the process. A friend of mine checked out that way: a drunken fall, head laceration on a table corner, unconscious and bleeding out. Much like William Holden.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday December 25 2017, @03:22PM (1 child)
Or didn't know how to effectively stop arterial bleeding, and died during the half hour or so it took for emergency services to reach him. Offhand I'm not even certain that there is any way for an amateur to stop jugular bleeding that isn't rapidly fatal in its own right.
(Score: 1) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday December 26 2017, @09:29PM
Tourniquet around the neck, obviously!
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday December 25 2017, @05:42PM (1 child)
Which segues into this article [harvard.edu] and this paper [nih.gov]. Plate glass tables, sliding doors, windows can be surprisingly lethal if you break through them [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:03AM
I recall an old TV show, I think it was called Watchdog, on the BBC. There was one episode about fire safety and they talked about upstairs windows that only had a small opening. The double glazing was so tough that in the event of a fire people were unable to break it, unable to climb out the small window, and perished.