The application of information technologies in health care delivery must be aided by innovative concepts that help us to avoid the limitations of our conventional paradigms.
Virtual reality is one of the most powerful concepts to come out of computing thus far.
But, many of the concepts of virtual reality are firmly rooted in a realist perspective. In this view, we speak of what is real as that which is materially substantial. We often think of the virtual, since it is without substance, as having no real consequences. That is, we may crash the virtual airplane without injury. A popular belief about virtuality is that on of its defining feature is this lack of consequences.