--- title: We Need a Code of Ethics for Virtual Reality description: A virtual reality code of ethics, how to fix housing prices, a robot that teaches kids to code and more. canonical: https://time.com/4300736/virtual-reality-code-of-ethics/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-20T16:01:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:05.863Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Need a Code of Ethics for Virtual Reality og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4300736/virtual-reality-code-of-ethics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We Need a Code of Ethics for Virtual Reality twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We Need a Code of Ethics for Virtual Reality by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 20, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 20, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Before we’re all using virtual reality, we should set up a code of ethics.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/04/18-ethical-dilemmas-virtual-reality-west) By Darrell M. West at the Brookings Institution **2\.** [**Housing is too expensive and just building more isn’t helping.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-18/what-makes-housing-too-expensive) By Justin Fox in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**Meet the friendly robot programmed to teach kids to code.**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/root-the-code-teaching-robot/) By Leslie Macmillan at the Harvard Gazette **4\.** [**401Ks and IRAs aren’t cutting it. Can we make Social Security actually fund retirement?**](http://www.vox.com/2016/4/19/11450466/expand-social-security) By Dylan Matthews in Vox **5\.** [**The Air Force wants to retrofit old jets into drones to accompany manned fighters.**](https://warisboring.com/2018-the-year-u-s-fighter-pilots-could-get-drone-wingmen-8dcd884e66ba#.cyuybedkn) By David Axe at War is Boring  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4300736/virtual-reality-code-of-ethics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4300736/virtual-reality-code-of-ethics/"},"headline":"We Need a Code of Ethics for Virtual Reality","datePublished":"2016-04-20T16:01:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:05.863Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4300736/virtual-reality-code-of-ethics/","keywords":["Innovation","robots","Drones","Social Security","Virtual Reality"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4300736/virtual-reality-code-of-ethics/","name":"We Need a Code of Ethics for Virtual Reality"}}]}] ```