Advanced Virtual Reality Technologies Challenge Cultural Norms

Anybody who follows the technology in videoyour own living room, then most likely that
games, or the world of virtual reality technologies,experience would be far better than any kind of
well, it should be self-evident that there is noexperience you could have in the real world.
stopping the advances of these innovations, andSuch VR technology would indeed replace drugs
one day they will be as real, as real life. Meaningand alcohol, it would cure depression, and there
that in your own living room, you may havewould be no need for any mood altering
holographic technologies, 3-D projection,behavioral drugs such as Ridlin or Prozac. In fact,
augmented reality attachments, andthere would be no problem with behavior in
surround-a-sound and you won't be able to tell theschool, because your child would be sitting in your
difference between what is real and what is not.living room learning everything he or she would
When futurists talk about these things, that is toever need to know.
say advanced virtual reality technologies, theyIndeed, with such advanced VR innovations, you
realize that they have the potential to change thewould never need to go anywhere because you
cultural norms of our society, and impact the realcould be they are without leaving. Are you
world in both a positive and negative way. Thebeginning to see how the future might unfold, and
first thing that many futurists believe is that ifwhy futurists are talking about this now? I hope
you can be anything you want, and achieveyou will please consider it.
anything you'd like in a virtual reality setting of