--- title: Five Best Ideas: VR Can Make Athletes More Successful description: Can virtual reality make athletes more successful, how the immigration ban could threaten Americans abroad and more. canonical: https://time.com/4665332/virtual-reality-can-make-athletes-more-successful/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-09T17:00:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:05.219Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Virtual Reality Can Make Athletes More Successful og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4665332/virtual-reality-can-make-athletes-more-successful/ 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: Virtual Reality Can Make Athletes More Successful twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Virtual Reality Can Make Athletes More Successful by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 9, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 9, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can virtual reality make athletes more successful?**](http://www.espn.com/nba/story/%5F/page/presents5/washington-wizards-virtual-reality) By Tom Haberstroh at _ESPN_ **2\.** [**This is how the immigration ban could threaten Americans abroad.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lemmon-iraqi-refugee-policy-20170126-story.html) By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon in the _Los Angeles Times_ **3\.** [**Urban post offices can be reimagined to fight food insecurity.**](http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2017/02/the-food-bank-of-the-future-could-be-in-a-post-office/516084/) By Krutika Pathi in _CityLab_ **4\.** [**This hundred year-old Dutch design movement is behind the look of many websites, your phone and more.**](https://backchannel.com/100-years-of-clean-lines-how-de-stijl-is-influencing-digital-design-4397f1a72e37#.5aw6gfox5) By Alain Dujardin in _Backchannel_ **5\.** [**Terrorism costs businesses billions. Here’s how they can join the fight against violent extremism.**](https://www.lawfareblog.com/can-trump-harness-private-sector-stop-violent-extremism) By Eric Rosand and Alistair Millar in _Lawfare_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: VR Can Make Athletes More Successful ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4665332/virtual-reality-can-make-athletes-more-successful/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4665332/virtual-reality-can-make-athletes-more-successful/"},"headline":"Virtual Reality Can Make Athletes More Successful","datePublished":"2017-02-09T17:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:05.219Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4665332/virtual-reality-can-make-athletes-more-successful/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","Technology","Terrorism","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/4665332/virtual-reality-can-make-athletes-more-successful/","name":"Virtual Reality Can Make Athletes More Successful"}}]}] ```