The Virtual World has Become Closer
The Virtual World has Become Closer
Moving the virtual body has become a real
Recent experiments with virtual reality
devices have proven that a person can feel his "Avatar" as well as
his own body.
Even if this
"Avatar" has the opposite sex.
Experience conducted by led by
neurologist Olaf Blanke from Center for the Study of the brain Lausanne
(Switzerland), continues his survey four years ago.
Previous works have focused on
the study of how our brain uses information from the senses to determine the
position of the body in space.
Then, in 2007, volunteers wore
eyepieces with a video screen on which the image was supplied with two
chambers, removing what is happening behind the guinea, and creates the
illusion of three-dimensional.
In the field of vision camera
is plastic twig, and at the same time to the participants of the experiment
touched the chest.
Subjects reported that they
experience the illusion of being outside one's own body and watch the
"eyes" of cameras, something happens to the body of another person.
The researchers concluded that
these feelings that we can experience, for example, in a state of clinical
death or drugged, tied with confusing sensory information coming into the
brain.
During the present experiment,
volunteers were in a virtual reality, and experts touched their bodies and
simulated touching them "Avatar"
- sometimes simultaneously, sometimes not.
At the same floor of virtual
characters that were administered the experimental, not always coincide with
reality.
It turned out that disparate
visual and tactile data lead to the perception of the virtual body as his own.
The electrodes are connected
to the head of each test, registered disorder of brain function in the temporal-parietal
and frontal regions, which are responsible for the integration of information
coming in through sight and touch into a single perception.
Thus, the trick the brain was
quite simple, that can be useful to the creators of games based on virtual
reality. The results are shown in
Conference American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held in Washington,
DC.
Prepared according to the Guardian.
