In this episode from season 4 titled "Virtual Slide" (originally aired June 22, 1998), the Sliders find themselves in a world where virtual reality has been incorporated into all aspects of daily life including "VR therapy," education, recreation and entertainment. Providing access to pleasurable memories and fantasies, VR headmounted displays are worn by nearly the entire population at all times, making even mundane tasks creative and enjoyable. The company that produces the VR units under the brand name "Realman" has the slogan "Virtual Technology For Better Living." As the company's idea of better living quickly reveals itself to be highly addictive, rendering the population docile and easy to manipulate, the sliders hack into the VR mainframe to convert fantasies to nightmares before sliding on to their next world.

Virtual reality also provides a titillating narrative involving sexual fantasies and amplifying sexual tensions between the two lead characters, ending with indignation at the appropriation of one's image for the purposes of non-consensual gratification. Other aspects virtual ethics are also superficially and predictably explored through issues of addiction and self-reliance as well as the corporatocracy's exploitation of VR-addicted workers.