Furthermore, in my case, even touching their hair can produce an allergic reaction. Electronic horses do not stink when they relieve themselves, or give you skin rashes with their hair. The Tamagotchi likewise defecates scentlessly. To assert that this device nurtures the maternal instinct is to misrepresent it. Whether riding your virtual horse or rearing your virtual Tamagotchi chick, you need not deal with the various unpleasantnesses that these things entail in real life.
Virtual reality does have definite uses.
It is, for example, an ideal tool for teaching pilots. If trainees did all their basic cockpit training in the air, one can only wonder how many additional crashes there would be. That is why it is done by computer simulation now. Virtual reality is also used for training jet fighters. I have played three-dimensional games.