The revolutionary new techniques in virtual reality has taken us by storm and we can only imagine what we could do with this in the future. Many people feel hopeful about it, others fear of what negative impacts are hiding in the future inventions.

So what’s your opinion on VR, will it benefit or handicap us in the future?

VR is an invention that is growing bigger and bigger. It is a computer engineering technique that lets you experience things in a made up reality through a pair of goggles, it simulates the user's physical presence in a realistic or fictional environment. VR creates artificial experiences that can involve different senses to make it feel realistic.

The growing interest in VR will probably affect our lives in many ways …show more content…
You can experience the safari in Afrika, the clear blue waters of Croatia, or the coral reef of Australia without even leaving your house. If you ask me that’s great because it puts absolutely no boundaries to do the things that you love or dream of. No lack of money to hold you back, no jetlag, no need to take a bunch of vaccines and going on 10 hour flights. Just sit back in your couch, relax and travel wherever you want to go. This will also be kind to the environment because the fuel emissions will decrease if we travel less with cars and airplanes and so on.

But as with everything in life there are downsides to VR too. The “couch-traveling” could make people who are fully capable of doing everything in real life, start using VR only and therefore make them lazy. It’s not good at all to just sit at home with your VR glasses on instead of going outside and experience life for real. And as much as it could benefit the environment, I personally really hope people don't stop travelling places in real life, the world would get so lazy, lame and …show more content…
This might sound like a great idea for a while but if you start running from your problems all the time you most likely will run into trouble sooner or later in your real life. This could actually make people develop issues like social phobia and things similar to that.

VR could also lead to negative economic consequences. For example, traveling with VR instead of in real life will be economically beneficial for the person using it but less positive for companies and organisations working in the tourism business like at airports, hotels, local restaurants, different rental companies etc. VR traveling could result in fewer tourists which could lead to financial issues for these companies, that could devastate the business and lead to unemployment.

On the other hand, one of the many positive things about VR is that not only does it open doors for people with, as earlier mentioned, phobias, it can even help cure them. According to the South Korean electronic company Samsung, every fourth person in scandinavia suffers from spider phobia. Samsung made a campaign to introduce how to use VR to cure fears and phobias, this campaign included videos showing an experiment on scandinavians suffering from this. They were exposed to spiders in a VR-simulation with the intention to reduce or completely cure the