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Letter: Virtual inversion

Published 29 October 2014

From Aidan Karley

Laura Spinney writes about perception changes while wearing various types of inverting goggles (11 October, p 42). I wonder how experiments in this area will change as high-definition virtual-reality headsets like the Oculus Rift become more widely available.

For example, “perception” could be switched in an instant, without framing cues; or one eye could get 10 degrees of rotation more than the other.
Aberdeen, UK

Issue no. 2993 published 1 November 2014

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