{"id":85295,"date":"2018-11-30T05:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-one-researcher-is-using-vr-to-help-our-eyes-adapt-to-seeing-in-space"},"modified":"2018-11-30T05:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:45:04","slug":"how-one-researcher-is-using-vr-to-help-our-eyes-adapt-to-seeing-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-one-researcher-is-using-vr-to-help-our-eyes-adapt-to-seeing-in-space","title":{"rendered":"How One Researcher Is Using VR to Help Our Eyes Adapt to Seeing in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-one-researcher-is-using-vr-to-help-our-eyes-adapt-to-seeing-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like moon-walking astronauts don\u2019t already have plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/04\/03\/the-moon-is-a-natural-platform-for-asteroid-mining-detection-and-deflection\/\">hazards to deal with<\/a>. There\u2019s less gravity, extreme temperatures, radiation\u2014and the whole place is <a href=\"https:\/\/gsa.confex.com\/gsa\/2008AM\/finalprogram\/abstract_151280.htm\">aggressively dusty<\/a>. If that weren\u2019t enough, it also turns out that the visual-sensory cues we use to perceive depth and distance don\u2019t work as expected\u2014on the moon, human eyeballs can turn into scam artists.<\/p>\n<p>During the Apollo missions, it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/327847356_Lunar_Pyschophysics_Effects_of_Atmospheric_Light_Scattering_on_Perceptual_Distortions_in_a_Lunar_Virtual_Environment\">well-documented phenomenon<\/a> that astronauts routinely underestimated the size of craters, the slopes of hilltops, and the distance to certain objects. Objects appeared much closer than they were, which created headaches for mission control. Astronauts sometimes overexerted themselves and depleted oxygen supplies in trying to reach objects that were further than expected.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon has also become a topic of study for researchers trying to explain why human vision functions differently in space, why so many visual errors occurred, and what, if anything, we can do to prepare the next generation of space travelers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/phyoN-wOE\">https:\/\/wp.me\/phyoN-wOE<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not like moon-walking astronauts don\u2019t already have plenty of hazards to deal with. There\u2019s less gravity, extreme temperatures, radiation\u2014and the whole place is aggressively dusty. If that weren\u2019t enough, it also turns out that the visual-sensory cues we use to perceive depth and distance don\u2019t work as expected\u2014on the moon, human eyeballs can turn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}