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In 2013 I interviewed a dozen scientists at the British Neuroscience Association.

One of them was Mel Slater, a world famous professor of virtual reality research.

I'd met him ten years before when I was doing my doctorate.

My neuroscience lab was in a building next to his virtual reality laboratory, so thanks to his pioneering work at University College London I got the chance to experience VR for the first time nearly 20 years ago.

Even at that time it was pretty spectacular because it was running on a £300,000 state-of-the-art VR "cave".

I dug out the interview I did with him the other day and was struck by how everything he predicted about VR becoming much more affordable actually came to fruition.

No wonder he has made some of the most significant contributions to virtual reality research that the world has ever seen.