New and exciting tech seems to be announced every day, whether it's artificial intelligence that can write screenplays or robotic dogs for the military.
And now a company has started making electronic drugs, or stimulating the effects at least, so you can go on an acid trip just by putting on your VR goggles.
Researchers from Estonia wanted to see if they could get the benefits from psychedelic therapy without patients having to actually take the drugs, therefore minimising any risk.
And they soon found that they could, by using virtual reality goggles, so soon you might be able to download drugs from your digital dealer.
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The researchers named their app Psyrreal, and it runs on modern VR headsets, including HTC Vive Pro Eye, and operates on the Unreal Engine - the same software used to power online shoot-em-up Fortnite.
The effectiveness of Psyrreal was tested on 13 people after being advertised on an Estonian website, and the subjects went through a two-day therapeutic trial using Psyrreal.
Afterwards, 85 per cent reported feeling "positive emotions" during the test, with 46 per cent reporting "feelings of joy and pleasure".
The researchers wrote: "We developed Psyrreal, a somatoaudiovisual virtual reality experience based on psychedelic and mystical phenomenology to aid the treatment of different psychological disorders and help participants to see things from new perspectives.
"We observed that using this novel therapeutic tool in an augmented therapy intervention alleviates mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms.
"The results of the study suggest that psychedelic subjective experiences implemented through virtual reality could have therapeutically beneficial effects (potentially extending beyond depression) and that further research into similar novel tools is warranted.
"Implementing elements of psychedelic experiences that potentially mediate therapeutic effects in virtual reality can also help to precisely investigate and elucidate the mechanisms underlying psychedelic therapy."
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