Forget gaming: how virtual reality is set to transform our lives in the real world – all from the comfort of our sofa
- New apps let you ‘walk’ on Mars, relieve pain without medication and explore dreams while you’re awake – wearing hi-tech headgear at home
- Another innovative use allows you to create and walk, in real time, through a 3D design of your ideal home and invent fantastic gadgets
Virtual reality (VR) may seem to have been created by the e-gaming industry, but it is set to change the daily lives of everyone – not just gamers – in mind-blowing ways.
The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment – either similar to the real world or fantastical – with which people can interact by using electronic equipment, such as helmets with screens and gloves with sensors, certainly makes it easy for things such as killing zombies in haunted houses.
Yet already it has other valuable, far-reaching applications – which are coming to a living room near you.
1. Relive dreams while you are awake
Our dreams while we are asleep can be funny, horrifying, exhilarating and sometimes fantastic.
Yet what would it be like to experience your own dreams, or those of someone else, while you are awake?
