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I suppose it had to happen sometime - body swaps hit the mainstream media. A Reuters news item entitled Swedish researchers create body-swap illusion tells how they fooled subjects into believing the image they saw on a video monitor was their own body. The last couple of paragraphs are intriguing:
Finally, they tried a full body swap between two volunteers and it worked.
The illusion only goes so far. The researchers said they could not fool their volunteers into thinking they were a box, for example.
Other links may be found at Google News.
Jamie
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The original source comes from a paper presented in the journal PLoS One http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
It makes interesting reading