HOW VR IS ALREADY CHANGING THE WORLD

01 IT’S STOPPING ASTRONAUTS GETTING HOMESICK VR apps have been made to emulate home locations of astronauts from New Zealand and Ireland by mental health research labs in the UK. The idea is to use a VR headset in space to relieve symptoms of claustrophobia or depression. 02 IT’S HELPING US EXPLORE THE MOON A competition run between a handful of privately-owned companies – the Google Lunax XPrize – is seeing engineers working to design a robot that can land on the moon and allow itself to be operated by VR headsets here on Earth. The prize? $30 million! 03 IT’S LETTING US MAKE MORE INTERESTING MUSIC VIDEOS Of course Bjork was the first person to make a VR music video – her semi-erotic, semi-terrifying exploration of her song stonemilker…

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