8 Ways Virtual Reality Will Make Life Worth Living

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?"