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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?
http://tass.com/society/982465
Also at Newsweek.
(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.