Ispace Lab

virtual real­ity soft­ware and hard­ware is becom­ing increas­ingly afford­able and pow­er­ful, and is increas­ingly being used in exper­i­men­tal research. in fact, the pos­si­bil­ity to con­duct tightly con­trolled and repeat­able exper­i­ments with nat­u­ral­is­tic multi-modal stim­uli in a closed action-perception loop sug­gest that vr could become an increas­ingly pow­er­ful yet flex­i­ble research tool. despite increas­ing com­pu­ta­tional power and ren­der­ing qual­ity, though, it is debat­able whether humans nec­es­sar­ily per­ceive, feel, think, and behave sim­i­larly in real and vir­tual envi­ron­ments – which is essen­tial for achiev­ing suf­fi­cient real-world trans­fer of exper­i­men­tal results gained in the lab, and pro­vid­ing com­pelling expe­ri­ences. what might be miss­ing? what can we learn from this? how can we use this basic infor­ma­tion to improve both tech­nol­ogy and user experience? how might we be able to “cheat intel­li­gently” in vr and, e.g., pro­vide u