Studies have shown that virtual reality can be effective in fighting implicit racism – the inherent bias that humans have against those who don’t look or sound like them. Intriguingly, using such technology promises to alter people’s behaviour afterwards – potentially for the better. “We were standing there just in underwear, and I looked down, and I saw my whole body as a man, dressed in underpants,” she says. This is the scene that Wahl remembers when she thinks back on the experience. When Wahl swapped with her partner, Philippe Bertrand, an artist who works at the Be Another lab, they wound up stripping down to just their underwear. “It was so natural,” Wahl says, laughing, “and at the same time it was so unnatural.” Eventually, this kind of slow, synchronised movement becomes comfortable, and participants really start to feel as though they are living in another person’s body. To get used to seeing another person’s body without actually having control of it, participants start by moving their arms and legs very slowly, so that the other can follow along. The video from each camera is piped to the other person, so what you see is the exact view of your partner. Both users don an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset with a camera rigged to the top of it.
She acquired her new body using a machine called The Machine to be Another. Wahl, an actress, model and artist, was one of the participants in a body swapping experiment at the Be Another lab, a project developed by a group of artists based in Barcelona. You start to feel more and more comfortable in it, and you start to really get the fantasy of how it would be if it were your body.” “The first seconds are just overwhelming,” says Rikke Frances Wahl, a woman who temporarily became a man.
#Body swap interactive skin
Yet a few people have experienced what it might be like to step into the skin of another person, thanks to an unusual virtual reality device. The idea of suddenly taking the form of your neighbour, a celebrity or even your dog is fun to think about, but seemingly impossible to execute. If you could be anybody in the world, who would it be? This is usually just a theoretical question.
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