Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do,.

• Author: Bailenson, Jeremy
• Position: FURTHER READING

Virtual reality technology is no longer limited to futurist theory or sci-fi novels. Developers around the world are now demonstrating sophisticated simulations that are so immersive that they are barely distinguishable from reality.

Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University, draws on over two decades of experience in his recent book to describe how virtual reality continues to have implications across the human experience, including for training, rehabilitation and trauma treatment.

"The best way to start using VR responsibly is to understand what we're dealing with," he says, and the...