I remember the first time I heard about virtual reality. I was in my sixth or seventh grade art class, and a few of the other students had seen a bit on it the night before on a news show like Dateline, or Nightline, or Newsline or some show like that, I forget which one. The important part was that there was a brave new world that existed inside of computers that humans could enter into, and anything could happen. Although at the time, I imagined this visualization of this world to be on par with the stunning detail of The Dire Straits video for ‘Money for nothing,‘ it still captivated my developing mind. The ability to walk on the moon, gun down an important political figure, get in a feces flinging fight with an ape or visit a disease free brothel in Latvia could all be a possible without leaving the comforts of home. It was almost too much excitement to bear.

Jump ahead a decade or so and we reach the world of now, but what do we see? 3D Virtual Colonoscopy! In all of my wildest virtual-fantasies, I never would have imagined that some day I could take a virtual tour up a human colon. Wow! Why have virtual worlds where we can drive fast cars without speed limits, or commit virtual suicide where we never die by high diving it off of a sixty story building when we can have a virtual flight up the virtual human bunghole where we can see pieces of virtual corn stuck to the virtual lining of the virtual colon.

The future has arrived, and damn am I happy.

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