A German gamer broke his neck while wearing a VR headset – but not because he fell over while playing.
Instead, doctors claim the 31-year-old – who played for up to four hours each day – suffered the injury because of his ‘repetitive’ and ‘intense’ movements.
Medics say repeated strenuous movements wore down one of the vertebrae in his neck, and causing it to finally crack.
Experts at the University of Leipzig Hospital, casino online who treated the man, believe this is the world’s first documented of VR-related stress fracture.
Detailing the case in a medical journal, the team wrote the unidentified man’s injury resembled ones seen in runners and soldiers.
The man went to the hospital after experiencing a sharp pain in his shoulders while playing a game.
Doctors did not reveal what game he was playing, but said it required him to move his body to ‘rhythmic visual and musical triggers’.
German medics attributed the man’s injuries to the repeated movements he made while playing wearing a virtual reality headset and playing a game that required him to move and react to musical ques (stock image)
It required him to wear a VR headset.The gadgets usually come with hand-held controllers.
Virtual reality headsets can weigh almost 1.5lbs (610g) and retail for nearly £400 in the UK, though medics in the German man’s case did not detail the brand of device used.