Virtual Reality has been able to get a lot of good PR for a treatment which, at least in some" cases, is "virtually" useless. When VR was tried for treating fear of flying, the research showed that VR was ONLY as good as their so-called control group: a group of people who merely sat on a parked airliner and thought about flying.

If that was not bad enough, the prople promoting VR claimed the research showed VR was equal to a traditional fear of flying program. Not so! A traditional fear of flying program is a lot more than sitting on a parked airplane. It involves learning how flying works, learning and practicing relaxation exercises, and taking an actual flight.

In other words, VR claims were at least misleading and some would say fraudulent. See the research at http://www.apa.org/releases/flyingfear.html