How Virtual & Mixed Reality Trick Your Brain

Our brains do a magnificent amount of work to process visual stimuli, but they aren't difficult to fool. Optical illusions can trick our minds into believing what we're seeing is real, even if it's not—and virtual and mixed reality technologies take advantage of this little loophole in our brain to help us accept the unreal. Our Eyes Lie to Our Brain to Make Us Believe an Illusion In the video below, you'll see a relatively normal setting, but the truth of the objects you're looking at is an illusion. Professor Richard Wiseman set up a scene filled with visual tricks designed to cause your... more

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