This is not benign. It’s electronic heroin mainlined directly into your brain. Watch Oliver Stone’s terrific 1993 five-hour mini-series “Wild Palms” to understand what will follow easily available VR for the masses. Free heroin in kiosks would be no more dangerous to society.
William Gibson’s works in the early eighties used his holo-decks which plugged into a direct bio-jack to explore the effects on individual and society.
VR, it’s a hell of a drug.
“Free heroin in kiosks would be no more dangerous to society.”
Well, except that heroin is actually a deadly drug that will kill you, and VR is just some pictures you are looking at through a headset. Besides that, yeah exactly as dangerous...