Oculus Used These Optical Illusions to Prove Everything We Know Is Wrong

[LiberalArkie]

http://gizmodo.com/oculus-used-these-optical-illusions-to-prove-everything-1693925726

WARNING: Do not go to this site if you are tea-party. You probably will not be able to comprehend.

(Images will not display here. But this is a mind twister.)

Virtual reality isn't ready yet. Oh, it's damn good—but it can't quite fully convince you that you are someplace you're not. But how sure are you of the "real world," anyhow? Today, Oculus guru Michael Abrash used these kickass optical illusions to show how fake our reality can be.

Remember The Matrix? Would you choose the red pill or the blue pill? (See above.)

Does it even matter if both pills are actually grey?

SNIP

[NightWatcher]

1. Our brains like to make sense of things

We often seek the easiest way out of things.

[JaneyVee]

2. Love stuff like this. That video at the end is great.

Bar Bar Bar Bar Far Far Far Far....

[LiberalArkie]

3. The one that got me was in the comments with the pink dots moving in a circle

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Both pills look perfectly gray to me.

The others were very effective. I've posted another version of the Rubik's cube illusion before.



The facets at the center of each face are the same color.



http://persci.mit.edu/gallery/checkershadow

[TeeYiYi]

8. Me too...

...until I just barely went back and tried again. Now I can see it. Try looking at the line in the middle at the same level as the two 'pills' and relax or slightly unfocus your eyes. Keep looking at the center line, keeping the pills in the periphery.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yUvvfQB4--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/afmro2xzwlwkfpq6mkzw.png

TYY

[edhopper]

5. Actually

It shows that we are right about what we know scientifically and to not rely on what we just experience.
Scientific inquiry is usually designed to remove as much of the "human element" as possible.
It also depends on reproducible results, so that whoever is doing it will come out with the same results if the theory is correct.

On the other hand, claims of ghost, UFOs, bigfoot or homeopathic cures based on eyewitnesses or someone claiming "it worked for them" can only be considered if collaborated by objective means.

Most of what we know is right, a lot of what we see is not.

None the less, this OP was a lot of fun.

[Kablooie]

6. Humans have never experienced reality.

Everything we experience is artificially created within our brains.

A specific, very limited set of external stimuli will trigger responses in our brain and we call that experiencing reality but it's not, evidenced by drugged brains that respond to external stimuli in abnormal ways. We rely on a consistent response to similar external stimuli to create an illusion of reality.

Limited because there are a many aspects to reality that don't trigger responses such as light waves we can't see. We have found indirect evidence of them by creating devices that sense them and convert the result into something our bodies can respond to such as a visible image.

We have no way to sense reality directly. Everything you see, feel, hear is not reality. Reality has no sound, no visible light, no colors, not even separate objects. All this we sense is invented totally within us individually. When you think of it this way it makes you feel pretty isolated but it's the best nature has provided us to navigate in the real universe.

[hunter]

7. The pill illusion and the moving lips illusion didn't work for me.

That makes me think some of these illusions can be eliminated in practice, they are learned "shortcuts" in visual or audio processing.

I've got a lot of video and computer graphics practice.

I'm also on the autistic spectrum where watching people's faces while they talk is simply confusing to me. I also can't pick voices out of a crowd.

Whenever I watch movies by myself, I turn the volume low and the subtitles on. It's the only way I can tell what people are saying sometimes.

This was interesting. Thanks.