A lot of comments here mention this isn't unique to the VR medium. I would suggest that VR is fundamentally different than reading a good book or watching a gre

A lot of comments here mention this isn't unique to the VR medium. I would suggest that VR is fundamentally different than reading a good book or watching a great movie. I would expect this is closer to when movies were first invented. There's a story (which may be untrue) of a movie which had a train heading towards the camera, and people running out of the theater thinking it was real. I expect the feelings the author is exploring is in part experiencing a brand new medium. What I really like about this article is how the author isn't drawing conclusions, but rather saying this is an interesting phenom to investigate further. VR does provide extensions to fundamental human ability (I can only thing of the depression a disabled person would feel if they could move around virtually), and I would be interested to see if there's a fundamentally addictive quality to extending your interactions with reality.