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.
However, there is almost no scientific knowledge on the effects of virtual reality in the long run, nor any oversight over content.
An 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.
