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posted by takyon on Sunday December 24 2017, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the whoops-stumble-cut-death dept.

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?

http://tass.com/society/982465

Also at Newsweek.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday December 24 2017, @02:13PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday December 24 2017, @02:13PM (#613856)

    Not a pleasant way to die

    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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