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How to FEEL Touch on in VR (no haptics)
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Date	July 6, 2020
Duration	26:34
Previous episode	How to be a Virtual Youtuber! Complete 2020 Guide
Adjacent episode	OCULUS RIFT S vs VALVE INDEX : Is it Worth the Upgrade?
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How to FEEL TOUCH in VR (no haptics) is the fifteenth episode of The Virtual Reality Show. Information technology covers the topic of phantom touch.

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Video Description

Episode xv of TVRS is here, and it's all about the crazy phenomena^[sic] of "phantom impact"- an experience where your encephalon tricks you lot into feeling touch when at that place is no physical stimulus for it. Watch my journey as I interview people with it, share my research survey, and experience a phantom touch hypnotism equally I try to develop it for myself.

Transcript

PHIA: Hey guys, and welcome dorsum to The Virtual Reality Show! Where nosotros talk virtually any and all things related to virtual reality, within...virtual reality! Haha. I'm your host, PHIA.

Phantom touch - you've probably heard of people who can experience physical sensations of being touched while inside virtual reality without the need of a haptic adapt. Information technology's scary, exciting, and just plain weird that our bodies can produce a concrete response to something simulated. And so what's going on? What does it experience like, and what is happening inside the brains of people who do experience this phenomena^[sic]? I decided to put together my own enquiry in search of answers.

Firstly, I knew I needed to talk to people who do feel phantom touch to understand what it is. I put together a survey to collect my own information answering the questions that I had well-nigh information technology. Only while I waited for the data to roll in, I went alee and grabbed some friends and pulled them into VRChat to take them explicate to me how they experience phantom touch on.

<interview text forthcoming>

PHIA: My survey I mentioned earlier was up for a couple weeks, and I got 128 unique sets of data from those people who can "feel" inside virtual reality. I'1000 now gonna walk through the results step past step and then we can empathize phantom bear upon ameliorate and see if at that place are whatever trends that we should accept from it.

The showtime question I asked was how oft exercise people with PT feel it. The results were fairly evenly distributed, with the largest majority weighing in at some or near of the time while in VR.

Next, I asked about what kind of sensations people would accept. A whopping 70% of people said they experienced tingling, making it the well-nigh common feeling people had in my sample grouping. Over one-half had the fuzziness my friends explained to me, and about a quarter said they had a numb feeling.

What was peculiarly surprising to me was the pleasure section. If you remember back to my ERP video, I explained how some people are able to feel pleasure using phantom bear upon. A whopping 25% of my respondents admitted to having experienced sexual pleasure while over half said they felt just pleasance in full general. About a 10th of respondents even said they had experienced pain. Feeling temperature was too mutual - heat being the more than prominent versus the cold. Other respondents put in feeling things like center beats, squeezing, weight, pulsing, scratching, and throbbing. In that location was a wide variety of dissimilar sensations that people seem to get, and these sensations greatly varied from ane person to some other.

The most common stimulus for phantom bear upon is histrion-to-player interaction coming in at 86%. Half of respondents said they could feel projectiles, such as gunshots coming at them.

Now, the most interesting piece of information I plant was this: Has your phantom affect sensitivity increased over fourth dimension? I figured that over time, people would get immune to these sensations. I thought perhaps your body would wearable out or your brain would get more than aware of the illusion, just the results showed me but the opposite. While a big portion was unsure if their sensitivity had inverse, 42% of respondents said their sensitivity had increased over time while simply 7% said it had gotten worse - quite opposite to my initial guess.

It was a pretty even split on whether or not people actively search out triggers, and a similar carve up on whether or not they choose to share this information with others. And of course, here's the well-nigh juicy results. I'm not gonna linger too much on this one, but here is the graph then feel gratuitous to intermission the video and telescopic this ane out for yourself.

What all this led me to was trying to detect out what was happening inside the brains of people who experience this phenomena^[sic]. It reminded me a lot of a previous give-and-take I've had on TVRS with Joakim from AltVR almost identity and inhabiting a virtual body, where he talked to me well-nigh the rubber hand experiment.

Our brains are capable of simulating sensations that we see, even if we exercise not actually feel them. Our brains identify with our virtual avatars and those perceptions can be taken to that physical level.

This is closely related to something called mirror-touch synesthesia, a type of synesthesia that occurs when someone feels a concrete sensation while watching someone else existence touched. For example, if you tap your cheek, someone with mirror-touch synesthesia would as well feel a similar sensation on their own cheek just from watching you.

Erin: Well, I think it's really similar to, like, phantom touch on, except it's more than like a visual stimulus when it comes to, like, seeing somebody else receive that sort of physical input, like, even if like through a Television receiver or like a moving picture or like, any, similar...I mentioned in your Google Doc similar if I watched somebody, like, getting a shot at the md, you know, I often experience a little pinch on my arm. Information technology'south weird merely yeah.

PHIA: How often would you say that you practise that? 'Crusade I feel like information technology would be very difficult to live, like day to day if every fourth dimension you saw someone being touched, you felt that. So information technology's gotta be like, um, like I'm certain yous don't feel it every single time, right?

Erin: Um, I hateful it's ordinarily if like, I'm actually like honed in on that thing, and I think it'due south more than of an broken-hearted response. Like, you know when you're similar watching a moving-picture show, and similar they're underwater? Y'all feel similar it's kinda harder to breathe because you put yourself in their shoes? So it's kind of like a course of empathy, if you will.

PHIA: Scientific American describes synesthesia as an anomalous blending of the senses in which the stimulation of one modality simultaneously produces sensation in a dissimilar modality. Commonly, this produces effects like, seeing colors when listening to music or associating certain personality traits with numbers. But synesthesia includes the blending of whatever senses, which in this example, would be sight and touch. I believe that phantom touchers see stimulus and their brain associates that with physical sensations in a blazon of bear upon-synesthesia.

There's even smaller examples of these quote misperceptions like phantom phone vibrations, which brings me to call back that maybe the way we determine reality is not every bit articulate cut equally we once thought. The truth about what we run into and feel can be simulated through virtual stimuli and suddenly, it is our perceptions that go real.

Later all this talk with those who have phantom touch, I started getting jealous. I wish my brain would exercise this kind of immersion. It's heady and fun, and something I want to experience first manus, and for a lot of yous watching, I'one thousand sure y'all feel the same way.

Luckily, during my research, I stumbled upon a surprising YouTube channel - Amanugai: a virtual hypnotist. At present, the video I found was of Amanugai hypnotizing a grouping a VRchat users into feeling phantom touch, and I immediately knew that I had to attempt this out for myself. The fact that I could have a shot at experiencing this was too adept of an opportunity to miss out on, so I reached out and he agreed to filming a demo with me and then that not only could I learn about being hypnotized into phantom touch, but that y'all guys could be introduced into it as well.

<Amanugai clip demo>

PHIA: So after getting sucked into making this episode for a few weeks, loads of research, jealousy, filming, data collection and hypnotism, I finally got my Valve Index in the mail. I loaded up VRchat with my new headset and full trunk trackers, and of a sudden VR felt more alive and vivid than e'er before. I went into ane of my favorite worlds and picked up this little rose and brushed it freely with my finger and I froze. What was that?

As my finger brushed over the petals, I felt them. Soft, damp, layered. I wasn't thinking about information technology or trying to get a phantom bear on from it. I was just: immersed. And at present...everything's dissimilar. This virtual world is my abode. It's personal, because I feel it.

Well guys that'south it for this episode. Making this video led me downwards a really crazy journey and was a few weeks worth of piece of work, simply it turned out to exist well worth it. If y'all enjoyed this video, so please give it a similar and subscribe to The Virtual Reality Show channel. And if y'all desire to talk more than about virtual reality related topics, then make sure to join my Discord, link in the description.

Anyways, I've been your host, PHIA, and I'll come across you next week'southward episode. Byeee!

Special thanks to my Patreon members and my Virtual VIP: TopWaffle.

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Vocabulary

Phantom touch
Haptic accommodate
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Phantom sense
Mirror-touch synesthesia
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Trivia

This used to be the longest episode of TVRS before being superceded by Psychedelics & VR: Layers of Reality.

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