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

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  (#9) To Learn Not to Piss Yourself on Stage

  A relatively simple, but brilliant virtual reality application already on the market allows those afraid of public speaking to overcome that fear. Created by VirtualSpeech, the Public Speaking app places the user in an environment where they are front and center, with an audience of realistic virtual beings listening to their every word. With practice, the user can become comfortable in front of both virtual and flesh-and-blood spectators.
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  (#7) To Preserve the Integrity of a Crime Scene Forever

  Imagine if jurors on a criminal case could take a walk around the crime scene on their own two feet, preserved exactly as it was when the police found it, while counsel points out the evidence of note. This is the future of the justice system as envisioned by some of the minds at Staffordshire University.

  By having first responders record the crime scene in VR, there will forever remain a virtual replica of the area, unmarred by time and human error. This VR simulation can be used by jurors or police investigating the crime years later.
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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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  (#5) To Give Yourself a Migraine

  Ever wish you could experience the intense pain of a migraine headache at will? Yeah, me either. Keep reading anyway.

  The brilliant minds at Excedrin have created a VR experience that simulates the bright lights, disorienting sound, and general unpleasantness of having a migraine. The purpose is to show non-sufferers what it's like for those who do suffer the affliction. The purpose is NOT, of course, to develop a way to create migraines in more of the population in order to sell more Excedrin. Where do you come up with these ideas??
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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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  (#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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