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Feel it in your fingers, feel it in her toes

Rebecca Armstrong
Friday 21 May 2010 00:00 BST
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A recent story in ‘New Scientist’ has revealed interesting leaps going on in the world of virtual reality.

Using VR headsets and the power of touch, a team of psychologists at Barcelona University has been studying the effect of making people think they’re someone else – in this case, adult men being made into 10-year-old girls. It sounds strange, but the experiment could have interesting implications for the future of gaming. Read the original article here Goo.gl/M0qH.

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