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A collective of artists and scientists called Be Another Lab have created a way to use the Oculus Rift to see what it would be like to occupy someone else's body.While we're still sorting out how to swap people's brains like in every cartoon ever, Be Another Lab has created the next best thing by staging a symmetrical set of two identical spaces, then having two participants wear Oculus Rifts to see what the other person is seeing. By doing this the participants are able to virtually body swap and live out their Trading Places / Freaky Friday fantasies.
Entitled The Machine to Be Another, the goal of the project is to explore empathy and the nature of the self. "More than individuals, we are part of a social collective called humanity," the collective explained on its official site. "As members of this collective, the perception of our own identity is based on our relation with other people and our social environment: how people see us, how we do act and interact with them, and what self image we project to this society and to ourselves."
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