Here’s a reminder that even if you’re playing a game in virtual reality, you’re still also in REAL reality . . .
A 31-year-old man in Germany ended up in the hospital after he played a virtual reality video game too much . . . and broke his NECK.
He showed up at a hospital with a sharp pain in his shoulder. But it was caused by a fracture in his C-7 vertebra, which is at the base of your neck.
It’s easy to trip and fall when you’re wearing a V.R. headset, but that’s NOT what happened. It turned out he had a stress fracture from doing a repeated motion too much. He told them he played video games up to four hours a day.
They didn’t say what game he was playing. But his injury resembled something called a “clay-shoveler’s fracture” that clay miners used to get from shoveling dirt and throwing it over their shoulder all day.
He had to wear a neck brace to support his neck for six weeks until the bone healed. But he made a full recovery after three months.
They think it’s the first reported case of a stress fracture caused by a virtual reality game.
Source: (Daily Mail)
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