They now saw the girl being slapped by the virtual woman. They also saw a virtual woman approaching them and stroking their virtual girl’s arm, while in the real world unseen experimenters touched the men’s flesh-and-blood arm.Īfter this preparation, the virtual visual angle of the men’s headsets changed, and the volunteers found themselves looking down on their avatars. When the volunteers looked down, in place of their own body they saw that of a 10-year-old girl in a tartan skirt. To see if the virtual world could be used to induce a similar illusion, Slater’s team gave 24 men a head-tracking video display to wear and recorded their heart rates.
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