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Facebook account banned after posting about breaking neck while playing VR

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If anyone is curious how he broke his neck:

"It’s actually a really strange event. I didn’t actually fall or hit anything hard. I had a pain behind my shoulder for a few days and really noticed it while trying to climb. Got worse progressively for about 3 days. On the 4th day, I tried to play a game and went to climb and through my had up and heard a pop. Went to the hospital and my c7 vertebrae was displaced and fractured.

So this is what the doctor tried to explain to me: the muscle /ligaments connected to the vertebrae were under stress from a strained muscle behind my shoulder. The strain was so bad it tugged hard enough on my vertebrae to cause it to crack. He said it was a very strange event and does not see it happen often."

While it may have been anautomated mistake, making his oculus account and paid games inaccessible at the same time seems inexcusable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Relevant.

One of "VR" less discussed topics is that it leads to complete situational blindness and people get into various accidents trying to play something virtual on top of actual reality. Just like PokemonGo leads players to trespass and fall when they're absorbed in some fantasy game in their head.

With my Valve Index, when the headset or controllers go near the boundaries of the play space (approx. 1.5ft from the edge for a 9x9ft area), SteamVR will overlay a bright cyan wireframe of what the cameras see on top of the game. For me, this works incredibly well and I've yet to hit my controllers on anything (well, except for clapping the controllers together).

I'd be curious to know if others disable this feature intentionally or if this method of warning the user isn't as effective with everyone (I am very easily distracted by anything popping up). I could see it being annoying for a smaller play space.

(Also, does Oculus/non-SteamVR have an equivalent? I assume it must)

it has, I haven't used an index but for oculus it works pretty well, Im always surprised as how well it remembers the area. Also pretty handy to recenter yourself, you just extend your arms in all directions and if you are near the edge you will see the boundaries. On the quest 2 you can even see through when you poke your head out of the limits and you can see everything around you.

There's an excellent "beta" / experimental feature on the Quest2 that you can double-tap on the side of the headset and it'll turn on pass through mode. This has been immensely helpful to me for recentering myself.

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