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Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

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An in-depth look at virtual reality and how it can be harnessed to give a boost to our everyday lives.

Virtual reality is in a position to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the limits of our imagination and granting us access to any experience conceivable. With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they’re real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only develop into more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium have an effect on its users, and does it have a future beyond fantasy and escapism?

In Experience on Demand, Jeremy Bailenson draws on two decades spent researching the psychological effects of VR and other mass media to help readers understand this powerful new tool. He offers expert guidelines for interacting with VR and describes the profound ways this technology can be put to use―not to distance ourselves from reality, but to enrich our lives and influence us to treat others, the environment, and even ourselves better. In the world of VR, a football quarterback plays a game against a competing team hundreds of times before even stepping onto the field; members of the United Nations embody a young girl in a refugee camp going through her day-to-day life; and veterans once again walk through the streets where they had experienced trauma.

There are dangers and many unknowns in the use of VR, but it also can help us hone our performance, get well from trauma, give a boost to our learning and communication abilities, and toughen our empathic and imaginative capacities. Like any new technology, its most unbelievable uses might be waiting just around the corner. Experience on Demand is the definitive look at the risks and potential of VR―a should-read for navigating both the virtual and the physical worlds ahead.

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