Real ownership of a virtual limb (Image: Hans Neleman/Getty)
WHAT is the best way to for someone to get used to their artificial limb? Put them in a virtual environment.
So says , a computer scientist at University College London, who has been studying how the rubber hand illusion works in virtual worlds.
In the standard illusion, a false hand is placed on a table in front of a volunteer whose real hand is out of view, and both are stroked at the same time. After a while people feel a sensation in the rubber hand, even when it…
