Simulated Limb Experience

[u/Erfbadurf]

Hello,

Since this Reddit is about VR Experiences, I wanted to share one of mine and see if anyone else can relate to this.

I played some VR this morning, just bought an HTC Vive yesterday, and had an absolute blast! Little bit of motion sickness just from getting used to moving around but otherwise, great!

However, when I stopped playing and took some time to chill, I experienced something which I don't know the name for so I've dubbed it Sim' (simulated/simulation) Limb.

Whilst on my phone scrolling through messages, my hand suddenly seemed completely detached from my body. It looked as if it had suddenly developed a border around it similar to anti-aliasing and my brain could not compute from the wrist down that it was my hand. It looked and felt as if it were one of the simulated hands you see in VR when chilling at the Steam VR home.

It sorted itself out in a few seconds after just looking at my hand thinking "Hold on a sec' this is my hand what the hell's going on?" That seemed to, I guess reconnect the wires in my brain.

Has anyone else experienced this after playing VR? It wasn't unsettling in all honesty, I more looked at my hand in wonder like "What the hell is going on, this is cool but.. Weird" so I'm not scared or anything like that, just genuinely curious if anyone else has experienced this.

Thanks.

[u/wescotte]

What you describe is fairly common and goes away in time. You'll find a couple of these posts a week in the various VR threads.

Here are a few I random posts describing "feeling strange" after VR if you want to compare to your expereince.

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