http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016128
It looks like it actually felt to participants that their belly really had inflated! Science!
VR Inflation is Backed by Science?
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 13:22
#1
VR Inflation is Backed by Science?
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 15:23
#3
dewj
Doesn't seem too hard to replicate. Just need a vr headset and a rod plus a program to replicate what the subjects saw.
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 15:53
#4
airtankgirl5
Neat. "Virtual reality can make you fat"
I sense a great disturbance in the Perv. As if hundreds of pervy souls had cried out in delight and are now in baffled silence.
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 19:32
#5
Put that together with the Japan VR porn festival. They use inflatable girls for the sensory input.
http://techwireasia.com/2016/07/japans-first-vr-porn-festival-cancelled-many-attendees/
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 21:45
#6
buttburster2000
Sweet christmas
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 03:51
#7
Margeret Moonlught
THE FUTURE
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 19:22
#8
Xythryx
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 21:19
#9
doubleintegral
All right, which one of you crazy bastards conducted that study?
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 01:40
#10
NameTaken
I'm just wondering who put the money in to fund this tbh
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 02:13
#11
Blimp Boy
The future can’t come fast enough. I ca imagine being fat and it happens RIGHT there.
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 07:33
#12
I always expected this to be impossible because VR bodysuits can presumably only produce sensations on the outside of the body and wouldn't be able to change its shape, so this is really good! But we're still not there because the sensations of stretching, fullness and so on aren't there yet, and presumably won't be until someone hacks brains or something.
Wed, 01/10/2018 - 13:31
#13
rollingnaturalones
Pretty hyped for what Black Mirror has to say about our new VR inflation overlords.
Wed, 01/10/2018 - 13:34
#14
rollingnaturalones
Local idiot double-posts by accident, footage at eleven.
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 20:29
#15
biff977
Boring stuff ahead...
I thought about the multisensory aspect of this, and the authors' use of the term inflated belly...basically the multisensory aspect was a v/r environment coupled with a single point of touch, and I thought about how to expand this (pun mildly intended).
First, if the v/r model was variable, from a normal belly to fully inflated, perhaps controlled by a red/green button combo (again, placed in real life while simultaneously modeled in v/r, similar to the prodding stick). The prodding stick itself would have an actuator that adjusted its length, so that as the belly expanded, the prod would simulate a correlating position (if you can picture it, if you held the prod to your belly as it expanded in v/r, your hand would be pushed outward, simulating your belly swelling larger).
Similarly, if the test subject were seated at a table, a second actuator could extend a horizontal bar, which would simulate the test subject's belly pressing into the edge of the table. Both of these aspects could move the experience from static (belly already inflated and unchanging) to a more dynamic experience.
Second, sticking with the multisensory and inflated belly terms of the experiment, if it were dynamic, why not add stereo sound in a headset for the test subject? A hollow hissing sound as the v/r subject inflates, possibly coupled with much quieter sounds (the squeaking latex of a balloon as it inflates) that the test subject registers but not really on a conscious level.
I would imagine a dynamic aspect could prove interesting in this experiment. As a follow up, I've thought of a few crude scenarios that the test subjects could run through, but I figure I've taken up enough web space. Cheers
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