Other participants in the study are representatives of major companies and institutions such as BBC R&D, Digital Catapult, Dimension /Hammerhead VR, Facebook London, NESTA, Jigsaw -part of Google-, Magic Leap, Microsoft Research, and University College London. Researchers warn about the dangers that might arise as these technologies becomes more and more realistic and urge for new research to address these scenarios.

However, there is almost no scientific knowledge on the effects of virtual reality in the long run, nor any oversight over content.Īn international group of researchers, with the participation of Mel Slater, director of Event Lab in the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona (UB), has published a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Virtual Reality reflecting on potential ethical problems of mass spread of virtual and augmented reality. Research on virtual reality started in the eighties, but it is now that good quality is available to the public and it can become a mass consumer product soon.

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