--- description: These are five fantastic things virtual reality can do for children, meet the women making the world healthier than ever before and more. title: How Virtual Reality Can Help Children image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How Virtual Reality Can Help Children by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 10, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 10, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**These are five fantastic things virtual reality can do for children.**](http://readwrite.com/2017/05/07/5-fantastic-things-vr-can-do-for-children-dl1/ "undefined") By Franky Upadhyay in _ReadWrite_ **2\.** [**Meet the women making the world healthier than ever before.**](https://medium.com/@melindagates/the-world-is-healthier-than-ever-before-women-like-ati-are-why-5146710fea61 "undefined") By Melinda Gates in _Medium_ **3\.** [**Could this Cuban treatment stop lung cancer in its tracks?**](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cuban-lung-cancer-drug-giving-u-s-patients-hope/ "undefined") By Amy Guttman at _PBS Newshour_ **4\.** [**Real police reform will be hard. We need to get America’s middle class engaged.**](https://www.justsecurity.org/40600/middle-class-problem/ "undefined") By Rachel Kleinfeld in _Just Security_ **5\.** [**You are what you read: How your favorite books reflect your moral code.**](https://psmag.com/news/why-sci-fi-fans-are-morally-loose "undefined") By Tom Jacobs in _Pacific Standard_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4773825/virtual-reality-vr-children/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4773825/virtual-reality-vr-children/"},"headline":"How Virtual Reality Can Help Children","datePublished":"2017-05-10T16:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:52.133Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4773825/virtual-reality-vr-children/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Cancer","health","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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4773825/virtual-reality-vr-children/","name":"How Virtual Reality Can Help Children"}}]}] ```