Dear Friends,

All our experiences and knowledge of the physical world are through our five senses of taste, smell, touch, sight and hearing. Together with this is our sixth sense the intuition. We enjoy the world or suffer pain through our senses. These sense signals when processed by brain give us awareness, a feeling of individuality, and desires. These desires should be resolved because unresolved desires produce greed and create tremendous long-term psychological knots in the brain. Resolution of desires is the first step towards achievement of spirituality and reduction of greed.

Yet fulfillment of desires require considerable investment in energy and resources and is the cause of misery and unsustainable development world over. Modern technology of Virtual Reality (VR) may provide a mechanism to satiate our desires at almost zero cost and energy.

Virtual reality (VR) is a creation of virtual 3D world in which one can feel and sense the world as if it is real. It is normally achieved by donning a headgear. The gear contains the screen, which is attached to a computer with the necessary software so that a virtual 3D world is seen. The increasing sophistication in this technology allows the sense of touch (by wearing body suit or hand sensors like a glove), smell and hearing through the head gear. VR experience is akin to sitting and watching a film in a 70-mm film theater or a planetarium but with interactive process where one can change the scenes and be a part of the scenery. It allows one to get a full blast of information to the senses and hence can allow us to enjoy the world and thus satiate our desires to certain extent.

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