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The rearview mirror one is actually a really cool experiment. I wonder if eventually you'd just get used to it (although you probably wouldn't get used to all of the neck and joint pain from trying to do things so awkwardly).

I agree.

Here's a clever promo showing people trying to live with a Rift showing them a lagged version of reality. I laugh so hard when he tries to make a pancake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNp37zFn9Q

That was funny, thanks for posting. Though I wonder what would happen for some of the tasks (dance/exercise, for example) - if all participants had the same lag.

There was a study done on perception that used "glasses" that inverted the image fed to your eyes. The subject's brain rewired itself so he'd see the images upright again in just a couple of days.

Interestingly, the optics in our eyes provide an inverted image to our retinas, so our perception of the "inputs" is already using signal processing.

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