Out-Of-Body Experience Recreated

Author: BBC News Source: BBC News

Title: OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE RECREATED

Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers.

The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people.

Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere.

The visual illusion plus the feel of their real bodies being touched made volunteers sense that they had moved outside of their physical bodies.

The researchers say their findings could have practical applications, such as helping take video games to the next level of virtuality so the players feel as if they are actually inside the game.

Clinically, surgeons might also be able to perform operations on patients thousands of miles away by controlling a robotic virtual self.

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a more in-depth article can be found here

Wow somebody get me a pair of those goggles. I wonder if you could use them to take a virtual vacation? Just not a bad Total recall type of fake vacation... a good Johnny Depp type of vacation.

*daydreams*


*happy sigh*

And another link for your perusal:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070823/ts_al...ienceparanormal

I wonder whether this technology would be useful for people who are paralyzed, or have disabilities?

It would seem so... atleast give them a chance to experience the things they once/never could do.

I bet my butt ps4 games will come in these goggles, all my life I've dreamed of owning virtual reality goggles, ALL my life that is..

another link of interest.. here

I have seen the Virtual Operation controlled by robotic hands.Some guy from another country doing an operation on a woman in another country.All went well,but *hell no* would I ever guinea pig for that.
Can't remember what showI had seen that on,but was about 3 months ago.