Grown Men Swap Bodies With Virtual Girl

[Shana A]

    Grown Men Swap Bodies With Virtual Girl
    The virtual environment created the illusion of being in someone else's skin.

    Thu May 13, 2010 06:30 PM ET
    Content provided by Bruce Bower, Science News
   
http://news.discovery.com/human/virtual-reality-body-awareness.html

Virtual reality can get downright unreal. In this simulated realm, grown men given a new perspective on the world suddenly find themselves convinced that they inhabit the body of a young girl.

Guys who spend time looking at a simulated world through a life-size virtual girl's eyes feel as if they reside in her body when they then view her from a third-person perspective, say cognitive scientist Mel Slater of University of Barcelona and his colleagues.