Did you ever imagine yourself as an astronaut and dream of boarding a mission to the moon? Forget the spectacularly unaffordable cost or the danger; now all you'll need to do is put on a pair of virtual reality goggles.
A number of companies are vying to sell you these headsets that offer gateways to whole new worlds. Clunky, expensive and likely to induce nausea just a few years ago these latest goggles have now benefited from the advances in technology developed for mobile phones.
But if you are concerned by the alienating effect of your coach or trainload of fellow commuters plugged in with headphones into their mobile handsets, how uncomfortable are you going to feel when you look up and the whole carriage is full of people wearing virtual reality googles? Rather than enhancing or augmenting reality, will virtual reality push us ever further from what's real; and break connections rather than forge bonds between human beings?
Virtual reality and 360 degree immersive film technology heralds the next revolution of visual communication, potentially as dramatic a change into how we view the world as that which came about with the introduction of cinema. But if we've been here before with virtual reality, this time it looks set to stay.
The premier BBC World Service technology programme, Click is joined by experts, including VR filmmakers, performers and philosophers to debate the transformative power of virtual reality - to put you in other people's shoes; to inform and entertain you with experiences that might even seem out of body.
Date: Tuesday 26 April
Venue: BBC Radio Theatre
Doors open: 6.45pm
Recording starts: 7pm
To apply for tickets, visit bbc.co.uk/showsandtours.
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