In the illusory body ownership, humans feel as if a rubber hand or an avatar in a virtual environment is their own body through visual-tactile synchronization or visual-motor synchronization. Despite ...

There are all kinds of interesting controllers and haptic feedback experiments designed to make the virtual world feel more lifelike and immersive. One recent piece of research, from the Swiss Federal ...

Body ownership, the sense that the body belongs to oneself, can be altered by inducing body manipulations in Virtual Reality, such as by increasing the visual discontinuity between the avatar’s hand ...

A full day with Oculus Touch proves good virtual hands are worth the wait. SAN JOSE—We’ve had a couple of chances to try out Oculus’ hand-tracking Touch controllers in the last few years, but they’ve ...

Some say the next step in human evolution will be the integration of technology with flesh. Now, researchers have used virtual reality to test whether humans can feel embodiment—the sense that ...

Oculus had talked much about ‘Hand Presence’ with the launch of their Touch VR controllers last year, but few games have implemented the controllers in such a way that truly deliver on that promise.