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Virtual Reality in Vision Research - Audio is a science podcast hosted by UCL. It has 1 episodes, with the latest published February 2011.

Immersive virtual reality is the research tool those of us who study human perception and action have been waiting for, because it enables us to perform rigorous experimental studies of natural behaviour. First off, it allows us to easily manipulate realistic visual environments while collecting continuous measures of ongoing behaviour. But its greater potential lies in the ability to test psychological theories by manipulating the world in impossible ways. I will describe several studies in which we break the laws of physics and optics to investigate some interesting visual-motor control problems:(a) How do baseball players catch a fly ball? (Manipulate gravity)(b) How do people guide locomotion? (Manipulate the optics)(c) What information is used for path integration? (Manipulate the visual-motor gain)(d) How can you tell if you're being stalked? And is a zig-zag path the best escape? (Manipulate the behavior of virtual agents)William Warren is Chancellor's Professor of Cogn

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