While most people believe Virtual reality to be the income way of the future, there are those who strongly oppose its integration into society.

Pros

- VR redifines the idea of communication, expanding it from people you know in real life to anyone connected to the internet. This means that relationships will begin to be formed more based off interests than general location

- Many different field can use VR to train people in a way that would usually put them at risk. This is used most notably in the fields of medicine, law enforcement, architecture and aviation.

- Those who are not able to fully experience reality, such as disabled people, could explore the Virtual World and still experience a full life.

- VR makes tourism and visiting sites more easy by giving a detailed view of the original place, e.g. Virtual tour.


- VR provides a chance to experience things that are impossible in real life as if you were actually there e.g. fighting zombies in a game


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Cons

- Those who do not have access or cannot afford this technology will be left out. Could further separate social classes in Information Age based societies.

- Communication using this technology would be susceptible to deception.

- Due to the fast paced development of Virtual Reality and online worlds, there is a lack of laws regarding these worlds. Users can say and do things in these worlds that is illegal in reality. Also, users may be less inhibited than in real life due to a sense of anonymity, and may act in a way that is socially unacceptable

- Many people may become addicted to living in these virtual worlds, and as a result forget or neglect their responsibilities in real life.

- Technology is still developing and there are still many flaws to be worked to.

- Some people have been known to have motion sickness due to using the VR headset.