Neil, thank you for inviting us to witness your VR deflowering. I can imagine a recursive scenario where VR veterans piggyback on the thrills of newbies discovering this new world.

AlsoVR as a vehicle for empathy seems promising.

Since you are a scholar of creativity, I wonder if you have found a(n inverse) relationship between meditation and creativity in either your research or personal experience?

I’ve found by calming the mind and quieting the cross-chatter generated by information overload I have fewer spontaneous mental eruptions… fewer ideas basically, because I have blanked out and become a calm observer… but more focused?

More productive but less imaginative? (Diffused vs focused mental states.)

I believe Dali sought out the in-between state of wakefulness and sleep, napping with a bell in his hand. Maybe there is an analogue for VR?