My VR experience would be like "Westworld" without Yul Brynner. Virtual Reality is the intermediate step between passive experiences like TV, movies or live theater (at least for the audience), and the active pursuit of life, or reality.
Virtual Reality could be positively used to perhaps, for instance, to overcome shyness, with simulated conversations or social situations; or any number of other simulated rehearsals for real-life situations, only in a virtual environment.
It would not surprise me at all if criminals someday may use VR to prepare for real-life crimes. Likewise, it wouldn't surprise me if perverts or pornographers eventually use Virtual Reality in conjunction with 976 Numbers, or to offer all the decadence, debauchery, vice, and voyeurism than anyone can stand, and then some. Speaking of sleaziness, I'm sure the military or the CIA will soon use VR for their own evil purposes. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and was later part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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