The notion of an afterlife is the cornerstone of most religions. There is a yin and yang to it for nearly all of them—for example, heaven and hell in Christianity. Typically, these constructs remain abstract and fuzzy for believers. Given that religious institutions have utilized every prior form of media, virtual reality seems likely to be used to create experiential afterlives—dare we say like “heaven” or “hell” on earth. Although Dante produced descriptive prose depicting the nature of hell in Inferno, virtual reality can enable his modern-day disciples to sample—that is, see, hear, touch,
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