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Out Of Body Gaming

Ever have a dream where you are watching yourself in third person? The out of body experience is a well documented phenomenon in the science world, generally associated with trauma or near-death experiences, but now scientists in Sweden and Britain have begun inducing the sensation, and the gaming implications of the technology are intriguing indeed. Here's how it works: Scientists fit a customer with goggles that contain video screens. Two cameras film the subject left and right, feeding the images into the corresponding eyes to create a three dimensional image behind them. The scientists then provide a stimulus...say touching a plastic rod to their chest, while at the same time performing a similar motion to the 3D image. In the UK study, Dr. Henrik Ehrsson reports that 18 of the 19 subjects said they felt as if the 3D image they were watching was the real person. More »

10:40 AM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,879 views, 19 comments

Latest by Number41: Okay, I don't get this. Basically, when people see objects coming at the camera, they think the objects are coming at themselves, because their eyes are seeing through the cameras directly. Cool effect, but not necessarily surprising. But what more »