Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30150700-20161005162327/@comment-30150700-20161008173827

ZeHaffen wrote: This is actually incorrect, as evidenced by Fairy Dance. Kirito played ALO originally with his NerveGear, he only switched over to the AmuSphere after Asuna had been rescued. If the brain frying were a core function of the NerveGear, Kirito would not have survived his death when he first attempted to beat the Grand Quest. It was a capability of the NerveGear that was triggered by the SAO game, one of the mechanisms of the game was to force the NerveGear to emit a signal powerful enough to kill the player. As such, it's perfectly logical that Kayaba shut off the mechanism prior to his duel with Kirito.

That actually does make sense, the way the subtitles translated it made me think it was a function of the NerveGear. After rewatching this part one more time, it doesnt actually say exactly what Kayaba did to send Kirito and Asuna to the floating platform, for all we know everyone who dies gets sent there and then delt with individually so anyones guess is a s good as mine. Maybe every player goes to that playform when they die until the 10 seconds passes and the NerveGear fries their brain.