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Psychiatry" by Ligthart et al. (2021) Ligthart et al. (2021) introduce the idea that "Extended Reality (XR) systems, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)," could be used for forensic psychiatry, and then go into detail about considerations that advocate for and against the use of XR systems in forensic psychiatry. Yet, in doing so, they implicitly make presuppositions about the functionality and performance of such systems, which first already seem to be questionable from a technical point of view, understood in a broad sense, but moreover, subsequently have far-reaching significance for a normative assessment of the use of such systems. The following remarks will therefore first describe what Ligthart et al. do not explicitly say about the required technology but must presuppose, and then outline the normative consequences of this omission. In the following, the focus will be placed on virtual reality since the use cases initially mentioned by Ligthart et al. suggest that the authors have also such systems in mind. Presumably, however, the remarks made here can also be applied to Augmented and Extended Reality systems.