Scientists have created glasses for transformation in the opposite sex – RSUTE

Moscow / 19.02.2016 7:46 / RSUTE.ru

Scientists have created a virtual reality glasses that allow a person to be reincarnated as the opposite sex. The experiment was called “gender Exchange”, it involved couples consisting of men and women.

Scientists describe their experiment “Exchange of gender» (Gender swap). Each pair, who participated in the study consisted of men and women. The experimental situation is assumed that the subjects sit across from each other and put on glasses that are synchronized with each other.

The test was carried out similar movements, with each seen on the display is what made him a partner. Thus it was possible to achieve the effect that each participant of the experiment is not in his body, and the body of his partner. The subjects walked through the room, move objects, and they have heard in the headphones of his partner, who talked about his thoughts.

According to the developers, their goal was to create a virtual reality system, which will create conditions for the development of empathy and experience the experience of others. “We used the data collected in the neurosciences concerning bodily perception, and tried to create the illusion of possessing someone else’s body. So we “cheated” the brain: the subjects began to think that they have a different skin color, body part “- scientists say

The authors point out that thanks to developed a virtual reality system, they were able to help test relive the experience. of the opposite sex to them.