Picture yourself in the comfort of your own living room, researching a vacation worth blowing your savings on. But you’re not squinting at a screen on your phone or tablet: Instead, garbed in a headset and gear out of a Tron flick, you are virtually walking onto a plane and selecting a seat that isn’t in airline Siberia, taking a test drive in a Tesla rental car and making sure that hip hotel isn’t a youth hostel in disguise.

All of that is currently possible as more and more travel vendors use virtual reality (VR) content as the ultimate travel brochure. Now leap ahead five or 10 years. Imagine doing all of the above, and then add this new twist: putting the travel goodies you select in your cart, and then buying them without leaving your immersive VR universe. Sounds like sci-fi, but many experts believe it’s coming sooner than we think. “The big leap will be moving [VR] from a marketing gimmick to something that could bring in booking revenue,” says Sean O’Neill, a travel technology expert for Skift, a New York–based research and media company.

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