Virtual Reality refers to an artificial environment with sensory stimuli and actuation experience similar to the real world.
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| Arguments in favor of | Arguments opposing |
| It makes experiencing alternative worlds possible. | |
| Virtual reality provides an extremely powerful tool for creativity, education and entertainment. | Virtual reality may cause disassociation from the physical world. |
| It makes artificial sensory experience possible. | |
| Virtual reality can be used to create artificial sensory experiences otherwise impossible to achieve in the physical world. | Virtual reality may cause sensory discomfort as the speed of adoption by human brain may lag the speed of creativity in virtual reality. |