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 Overestimation of abilities

Younger people could over estimate their abilities and their expertise

because of VR. They could think that their abilities in video games could

seemingly transfer into the real-world, such as driving, martial art skill,

etc.

A study from Stanford University found out that that children who plays

VR games often fail to distinguish feats in real-life and VR – from treating

their avatars as though they are their real bodies, to watching their virtual

reality doppelgangers swimming with orcas and then recalling it as a real-

life memory.
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 Psychiatric

Being immersed in VR can have psychological effects on some users.

Experts in neuroscience have spoken of “depersonalization” which could

result in a user believing that their physical body in an avatar. It is also

believed that VR gaming can cause post-traumatic stress disorder.

 Unpalatable fantasies

If there’s any industry getting excited about virtual reality, it’s the porn

industry. The adult entertainment website Pornhub is already reporting

that views of VR content are up 225 percent since it debuted in 2016.

This obviously isn’t an ethical problem in and of itself, but it does become

problematic if/when “unpalatable” fantasies become immersive. We have

to ask: should there be limitations on uber realistic representations of

aggressive, borderline-pedophilic, or other more perverse types of VR

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