8 Ways Virtual Reality Will Make Life Worth Living

By Chris Rowlands /

6. Holographic Laundry

Laundry. Some find its repetitive mundanity strangely soothing. Most find it languidly boring. Break the soporific spell of dirty washing by popping your head in a VR helmet. Look! Your socks have become snakes. Now the drum is the wheel of a racing car and those soiled shirts are the nuts! Look again: unload the bank notes (pants) from the vault (washer) quick-sharp before the rozzers (your parents) arrive. Run outside! That rotary drier looks an awful lot like a giant meringue that you need to decorate... Like an ever-evolving Old Spice advert, the laundry room would change from a place of woe to the place to go €“ all thanks to the magic of two screens shining 3D fantasy into your eyes. OK, so anyone watching would find your gales of laughter a little alarming €“ but do you care? No! Because you're pouring precious fuel into an X-Wing that's about to destroy the Death Star. What do you mean "it's not fuel, it's washing powder?"