In 2007 two papers appeared in the prestigious journal Science at almost the same time. Both described how new methods in virtual reality could be used to generate an ‘out-of-body-like’ experience. The experiments were based on the rubber hand illusion, but now extended to the entire body. In one of the studies, conducted by a group in Lausanne led by Olaf Blanke, volunteers wore a head-mounted display through which they saw a virtual reality representation of the back of
