Virtual Reality Users Watch Helplessly as Another User Has In-Game Seizure

A strange and unexpected consequence of virtual reality devices becoming more widely accessible is that users can now see other users suffer from real medical emergencies in the digital world, but not be able to do anything about it.

That’s what YouTuber Rogue Shadow VR claims happened to him and other users in the virtual reality social app VRChat this week.

As Rogue explains in his video, he and other VRChat users were goofing off in one of the app’s virtual environments when suddenly one of the avatars in the room, a black and red robot, fell to the floor and began twitching. At first, it’s unclear if it was just a bug or someone goofing off, which is what many VRChat users like to do.

REAL SEIZURE in VIRTUAL REALITY With FULL BODY TRACKING [ VRChat ] REAL