People have experimented with that sort of thing. Here’s a DIY for going into 3rd person mode using a camera on a stick and some electronics in a backpack. Bit of googling also finds me body swap experiments, but nothing on a crotch perspective.
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DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 1 day agoI figure the feeling of being in your head is simply due to your eyeballs being located there. Now I want to put a 3d camera on my hips, and steam it to VR goggles.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Microphones and headphones too.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The hips do not lie. Ipso facto, you would be seeing ultimate truth.
It turns out that the meaning of life is at crotch level.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
Something, something, biology.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
So now I actually think this idea is on to something brilliant. I have been diving into neuroscience lately and this sounds like an amazing experimental method.
It’s like non-surgically transplanting your eyes into your hips. Why do that? To further refine brain-body mapping.
We turn our head instinctively to aid vision. Once our brain realizes that visual input improves only when we move our hips, body awareness will shift significantly.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
If a future VR is strong enough to embody us in another body — an animal, a conjured crazy creature, whatever — would we eventually “learn” it? Move around in it? Be it? I feel like the answer is yes.