There are some amazing virtual reality headsets on the horizon with the Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus, and more, but no one has quite nailed down the perfect control solution—that’s where ...

Changes in body perception often arise when observers are confronted with related yet discrepant multisensory signals. Some of these effects are interpreted as outcomes of sensory integration of ...

The illusion of having a large body makes us perceive objects as smaller than they really are. This action-specific perception effect occurs because we perceive the property of an object (i.e., size) ...

Whether we feel scared or pleased in an environment and how we explore it is down to our combined perception of space and of our bodies, according to new research conducted in a virtual reality ...

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of "my body." When this process of integrating different sensory ...

I have terrible vision. Colorblind, nearsighted, and rocking a severe astigmatism in my left eye, my world is a bit of a cloudy haze. One major consequence of this is an almost total lack of depth ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of schools across the U.S. shifted to virtual learning. In a new study, published in Social Education Research, researchers conducted interviews with ...

Virtual reality isn’t confined to the entertainment world. There has also been an uptake of VR in more practical fields – it’s been used to piece together parts of a car engine, or to allow people to ...