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Welcome to Scientific Americans Science Talk posted on December 15, 2015.

I'm Steve Murski. Virtual reality is coming. It's been coming for a while,

but it's getting pretty serious and it's going to be happening in a big way, probably in just a few years.

To hear how, I'll turn it over now to Scientific American's tech editor, Larry Greenmeyer.

The recent launch of Samsung's Gear VR promises to be a watershed moment for virtual reality.

The headset could be the best thing to ever happen to consumer virtual reality,

or it could prove once and for all that people do not need to wear a visor to get an immersive experience.

One look around you at all of the oblivious people stooped over their smartphones tells you that

those devices are already pretty immersive.

This attempt is not the first time there's been a push to bring virtual reality out of the lab and into living rooms.

The 1990s saw crude VR efforts such as Nintendo's Virtual Boy and eyeglasses, spelled with an

eye, from a company called Virtual I.O. to name a couple. That effort was derailed by technology

that was underwhelming to use, expensive to buy, and tended to give people motion sickness.

Bad movies like The Lawnmower Man and its sequel failed to help virtual reality's image as well.

That's changing. Google and Samsung are now selling virtual reality visors powered by smartphones.

By the 2016 holiday season, you should be able to buy visors from Sony, HTC, and Facebook's

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