Illusions in virtual reality

While reading Tufte I remembered a documentary I saw sometime back on brain research using virtual reality. Posting two links:


http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/virtual_reality_illusions_produce_out-of-body_experiences_in.php


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6960612.stm


It is really interesting how a person was fooled in believing that his body was located somewhere else. How we feel that our "self" is located "behind" the eyes- like a first person shooter mode in a computer game :)

Change the camera position and the brain can be fooled about the location of the body. I would surely like to play a computer game where I am really "in" the game!