Break from reality?

[echo44]

I have noticed a strange effect after prolonged wearing AVP: After a few hours of wearing the glasses when I take them off it feels like reality is also just the same as wearing a vr headset? I will walk down the hall without the glasses and feel like they are still on sort of like a matrix effect? Anyone else? It is quite the brain hack. Was watching the dinosaur app and held out mu hand for the butterfly and when it lands on it you feel a tactile sensation. The brain is expecting it so it creates it. Several of my friends have had a similar experience.

 

[NotApplicable]

when it lands on it you feel a tactile sensation

I didn't feel the butterfly.

I used my AVP for many hours this weekend and didn't have any issue you've described.

 

[ZombiePhysicist]

I have noticed a strange effect after prolonged wearing AVP: After a few hours of wearing the glasses when I take them off it feels like reality is also just the same as wearing a vr headset? I will walk down the hall without the glasses and feel like they are still on sort of like a matrix effect? Anyone else? It is quite the brain hack. Was watching the dinosaur app and held out mu hand for the butterfly and when it lands on it you feel a tactile sensation. The brain is expecting it so it creates it. Several of my friends have had a similar experience.

I half expect to see windows if I turn around. It is a strange sensation.

 

[echo44]

It does make all those theories swirling around out there that existence is really a simulation seem more plausible

 

[kevinjones3]

Wow, that's really interesting! It sounds like your brain is getting so used to virtual reality that it's starting to affect how you distinguish reality even when you're not wearing the glasses. It's like your brain is playing tricks on you! It's cool that you and your friends are experiencing something similar. VR technology has a way of messing with our minds sometimes, doesn't it?

 

[tomtad]

I can imagine this, and it sounds horrible

 

[ZombiePhysicist]

Wow, that's really interesting! It sounds like your brain is getting so used to virtual reality that it's starting to affect how you distinguish reality even when you're not wearing the glasses. It's like your brain is playing tricks on you! It's cool that you and your friends are experiencing something similar. VR technology has a way of messing with our minds sometimes, doesn't it?

Kind of but not quite the way I’m guessing you mean. It’s not that I can’t distinguish one from the other. It’s more a phantom interface feel. If you’ve ever been working on your iPad and then shift to your Mac, and then for a second go to touch the screen on your Mac, it’s kind of like that.

It’s not that you can’t distinguish one from the other (one is clearly my Mac, the other an iPad and I know that and am not confused), it’s your muscle memory gets in a groove and a similar environment triggers you to anticipate an interaction from one environment on to the other.

I don’t know if that makes sense. But no, it’s not that I can’t distinguish one from the other, it’s more subtle predictive response from one environment cast to the other and you get this phantom expectation.

At least that’s the way I experience it. Perhaps others have a different experience.

 

[kevinjones3]

Kind of but not quite the way I’m guessing you mean. It’s not that I can’t distinguish one from the other. It’s more a phantom interface feel. If you’ve ever been working on your iPad and then shift to your Mac, and then for a second go to touch the screen on your Mac, it’s kind of like that.

It’s not that you can’t distinguish one from the other (one is clearly my Mac, the other an iPad and I know that and am not confused), it’s your muscle memory gets in a groove and a similar environment triggers you to anticipate an interaction from one environment on to the other.

I don’t know if that makes sense. But no, it’s not that I can’t distinguish one from the other, it’s more subtle predictive response from one environment cast to the other and you get this phantom expectation.

At least that’s the way I experience it. Perhaps others have a different experience.

Ah, I think I understand what you're getting at. It's not so much about being unable to tell the difference between your Mac and iPad, but more about how your muscle memory kicks in, right? Like when you're used to using touch screens on your iPad and then you momentarily expect the same interaction on your Mac, even though you know they're different devices. It's not a confusion between the two, but rather a sort of reflexive response based on past experiences in similar environments. I get what you mean about that phantom expectation – it's like your brain anticipating a certain interaction even though it's not relevant to the current device.
Your explanation makes sense to me. I guess everyone might have their own unique experience with this phenomenon.

 

[uiop.]

I also have experienced this. I'll see something out of my peripheral vision and will think it's something in VisionOS.

 

[Gleipnir]

It actually only corresponds to the world seen by someone with myopia of 200-300 degrees.

but it will make me try to manipulate the UI in the air when I wake up in the first few days, which Quest didn't do.