People using drugs or undergoing strokes or epileptic seizures are often reported of watching illusions of undergoing strokes or epileptic seizures. Scientists have managed to induce the effect in healthy people by stimulating their senses of vision and touch with the help of the goggles. The volunteers were tricked into projecting their awareness into a virtual body with the illusion being so strong that the volunteers reacted with a palpable sense of fear when their virtual selves were threatened with physical force. The researchers say mixing up the senses of sight and touch is the key to these experiments.
Experiments like these could lead to more practical applications in video games or remote surgery.

This could involve providing tactile information to a surgeon who is using video to control robot arms in a remote operating theatre or even better it would be the whole self transported to the operating theatre.
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