First-Person Perspective Virtual Body Posture Influences Stress: A Virtual Reality Body Ownership Study.

ABSTRACT: In immersive virtual reality (IVR) it is possible to replace a person's real body by a life-sized virtual body that is seen from first person perspective to visually substitute their own. Multisensory feedback from the virtual to the real body (such as the correspondence of touch and also movement) can also be present. Under these conditions participants typically experience a subjective body ownership illusion (BOI) over the virtual body, even though they know that it is not their real one. In most studies and applications the posture of the real and virtual bodies are as similar as possible. Here we were interested in whether the BOI is diminished when there are gross discrepancies between the real and virtual body postures. We also explored whether a comfortable or uncomfortable virtual

SUBMITTER: Bergstrom I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4734707 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature