Luis Eduardo Garrido was eager to try his colleague’s latest creation. Garrido, a psychology and methodology researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic, drove two hours between his university campuses to try out a virtual reality experience designed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and different types of phobias. But a couple of minutes after putting on the headphones, he realized something was wrong.

“I started to feel bad,” Garrido told The Daily Beast. He was experiencing a disturbing bout of dizziness and nausea. He tried to move on, but finally had to abort the simulation almost as soon as he started. “Honestly, I don’t think I spent five minutes testing the app,” he said.

Graceful…