The web is nice; how individuals deal with one another on the internet, not a lot. The phenomenon that happens when VR is good sufficient to trick your senses into believing that you’re really experiencing the thing you are just about experiencing, and your body responds in kind. Have you ever stood on a ledge or a high constructing in VR and refused to step off, even though your rational brain knew you’d just discover extra carpet?

Optical advances ran parallel to initiatives that labored on haptic gadgets and different devices that might let you move around in the virtual space. At NASA Ames Research Center within the mid-Eighties, for instance, the Virtual Interface Environment Workstation system combined a head-mounted gadget with gloves to allow the haptic interaction...