Random Weird Things You Didn't Know Virtual Reality Was Being Used Fo (13 items)

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  (#8) To Swap Bodies with the Opposite Sex

  You know that one immature male friend you have that insists that if he were a woman, he would just stay home and play with his breasts all day? Well, he soon may be able to do just that!

  On a more serious note, the Gender Swap experiment by the good people at BeAnotherLab uses virtual reality to allow men and women to experience one another's bodies. The process entails both male and female users equipping a VR helmet that inputs the sensory perception of the other person. By synchronizing movements, it would appear to each of them that they've swapped bodies.
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  (#12) To Make Your Dead Heart Feel Empathy for Once

  News stations around the world are beginning to broadcast news pieces in virtual reality. Why? Because decades of nightly horrors on the news have turned viewers into emotionless husks with little empathy and even less attention span. The idea is to put the viewer into the news story, right alongside the victim, or the hero, or even the President, so that they can experience what's happening firsthand. And maybe even feel something!
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  (#10) To Have Lunch Underwater

  Well, your dreams of having a 5-star dining experience at the bottom of the ocean will soon be a reality! Samsung, makers of the Gear VR, is working on an application to be used by restaurant patrons while they're eating. As conceptualized now, the VR program will whisk the whole table away to a garden in Tuscany. Once the main course comes out, it's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" time, in which playful dolphins will swim around the merry gourmands, and bubbles will rise from their drinks. After dessert, a shark joins the table and helps the patrons to experience what it's like to be the food.

  Just kidding about that last part.
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  (#6) To Experience the Story of Jesus Christ

  If you loved The Passion of the Christ, but feel like you just can't get that real religious experience unless you're standing underneath the cross, blood pooling around your feet, then this VR experience is for you! Autumn Productions and VRWERX have created a 90-minute virtual retelling of the New Testament. With 360-degree video, you'll be able to look all around every scene, including Christ's birth, death, resurrection, and turning water into wine. Sorry, the technology hasn't evolved enough to allow you to imbibe said wine.
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  (#4) To Ease the Pain

  Virtual reality healthcare company DeepStream VR claims to be developing a way to use VR immersion to combat short-term and chronic pain. The applications they've created transport the user to a relaxing, peaceful world where they can interact with friendly creatures. The experience is meant to tap into and maximize the brain's natural abilities to reduce pain.
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  (#13) To Practice Saving Kittens

  Want to save that poor cat in the tree branch, but you're too afraid of heights to do it? Well, now you can conquer that fear and practice your cat-saving technique all at the same time! Namco Bandai has created a virtual reality program that has people easing their way out onto a plank hanging off the edge of a rooftop to scoop up a digital kitten that's stranded on its end. Now, don't be a pussycat. Save that kitten!

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