Virtual Reality Close your eyes and imagine yourself to be on another planet fighting aliens or imagine flying over your favourite city on your personal tour. These situations might never materialise in your real life. But virtual reality provides you with an option to experience the thrill and excitement of something like this happening. While currently only in its infant state, virtual reality could exceedingly alter the future of the human race. Virtual reality can be defined as, “a technology that enables users to enter computer generated worlds and interface with them three dimensionally through sight, sound and touch.” (Nequist, Virtual Reality, 1993). Earlier popular only in video games and entertainment fields, virtual reality has now excelled in many other important fields like medicine, surgery, space programs, military, etc. This technology once properly developed and mastered will do wonders in these fields. Virtual reality helps people in breaking the boundations of their routine life and enters them into a 3-D version of the life they dream about. It is very aptly said “virtual reality is the first step in a grand adventure into the landscape of imagination.” (Biocca, Kim & Levy, Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality). This technology also provides us with interface for trials and errors in hypothetical yet possible in real life situations. For example, the military uses virtual training grounds for training their soldiers, virtual flight simulators like Microsoft Flight Simulators are used to train pilots, etc. Virtual reality has found an existence in almost every possible field of interest these days. Even with all its useful impacts, the technology of virtual reality has been facing a lot of opposition and criticism. Some of the disadvantages raised by the critics of this technology are personal isolation, lack of interaction with the real world and the lack of self confidence in the youth today. It is true that limiting oneself to the virtual worlds is harmful for the mental, physical and social health of an individual. But these problems are not technology generated and thus can be easily treated with some personal care. One should use this technology in limited amounts at a time and enjoy all of its benefits. It should always be kept in mind that, “all substances are poisonous, there is none that is not a poison; the right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.” (Paracelsus, The biology of Cancer, 2006) Although there are certain disadvantages, the benefits and future implications of the virtual reality technology are huge. This technology has the capability of becoming the greatest achievement of humankind, if used correctly and with some precautions.