What is it like to die? University of Minnesota’s VR experience offers some answers.
05/20/25 at 03:00 AM
What is it like to die? University of Minnesota’s VR experience offers some answers.
The Minnesota Star Tribune; by Richard Chin; 5/2/25
Our reporter returned from the Embodied Labs experience with some thoughts on what he’d like his last hours to look like. When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it’s like to die, naturally I said yes. Aren’t we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from which no traveler returns? Except this time, happily, I would get to return because it would be a virtual death, an experience in a VR studio that’s part of the university’s Health Sciences Library system.