Virtual Reality and the Young
February 28, 2020
FROM a review by Salwa Balchar of the 2019 movie Lion King:
What effect does this virtual reality have on the mind? To have an idea: According to the safety regulations of HTC’s virtual reality headset and system (see page 2), virtual reality technology “could trigger increased heart rate, spikes in blood pressure, panic attacks, anxiety, PTSD, fainting, seizures, loss of awareness, convulsions”… you get the idea.
It is safe to say that virtual reality works to break a person’s psychology, since it blurs the lines between what is real and what is not. By extension, it does harm to the soul in a different way: You become immersed in a reality where there is no God, no Faith, no Cross…
If this is what VR does to adults, what effect could it have on young people with malleable minds? One is left to imagine. [emphasis added]
