So, how cán this be done? Obviously you all know those bulky Head-Up-Displays (HUD’s) with built-in monitors so you are in a semi-real world. Some even provide head tracking so you can look around. But this still isn’t really real. So, how do we create a virtual world that approaches our consensus reality? A very interesting book series, called Netforce Explorers, sketches a novel approach to this; someone with an implant can ‘plug in’ to the Net, which is nothing more than a realistically looking world within the computer.
Although the idea of a ‘brain implant’ may scare some people away from it, this actually is really intriguing idea; the central nervous system is connected directly to the computer to provide direct neural input, bypassing the ‘real’ senses of the body.

The reason I started this post is to show you the following video. The man you see on it is Ray Kurzweil, “Inventor, Author, Futurist”. Enjoy his views on virtual reality in the future.