The very first time I tried Virtual Reality, To be frank, l wasn’t sure what to be expecting. I slipped the headset on, within a blink of an eye, my living room remained scanty. Instead of walls and furniture, I was standing on the edge of a massive cliff, a breeze passed my ears, a new world was created out in front of me. My instinct knew I was safe at home though, but my heart was skeptical I might actually fall if I stepped forward. That’s when it hit me this wasn’t just another screen to look at.
Virtual Reality has this undefined magic where your senses start believing the fallacy your eyes are telling. You could be swimming beside a big whale or walking through ancient ruins one moment without taking a single real world step. It’s complex how quickly your mind adjusts and accepts the impossible as a normal thing.
Furthermore, it’s not just about games, either. I’ve seen Virtual Reality used in modern classrooms today to take students on virtual field trips, even in hospitals to help people manage pain or discomfort, and even in therapy not to be scared in order to be safer. It’s becoming a tool as much as it is an escape. That is what VR does in this 21st century we are now. The tech we are talking about development must be done for it to grow speedily and maybe one day we’ll even be able to feel the virtual wind or smell the digital flowers.
Meanwhile, Virtual Reality is already opening doors we never knew were there to be candid. In a nutshell, Virtual Reality is more than a piece of tech we actually know. A proof tells us here that imagination can be made real. And standing in the middle of a world that exists only in code alone, you can’t help but wonder how it happens… if this is where we are now, where could we be in twenty years to come?
