DaVinci Institute: Night with a Futurist - Virtual Reality: Gateway to the Future

If you've never tried virtual reality, prepare to have your head explode.

Slipping on the latest Oculus, Vive, or Hololens, you are completely and totally immersed into another world. Even when you know that what you’re seeing is not real, virtual reality can still trick your caveman brain into thinking something is actually about to happen to you.

But VR is not just about video games. NASA is using virtual reality to control its Curiosity Rover on Mars right now. Psychologists are developing VR therapy to treat fears and phobias. Hollywood filmmakers are toying with the possibility of telling stories in a virtual world no longer constrained by a static screen in a movie theater. The NFL is looking at broadcasting football games in VR. And everyone from architects to medical professionals are adapting the technology for their own ends.