科技动态:新技术让虚拟变成现实!

A volunteer undregoes a virtual sex change. His virtual reality headset was showing him a woman and a young girl in a room and transport him into the girl's body. Once there the woman strokes his arm while his real arm is being stroked at the same time. The research aims to reveal how much we're prepared to believe that the virtual is real, according to university of Barcelona's, Panha Spindly .

一名志愿者正在实验转换性别的虚拟现实技术。他头上佩带的虚拟现实头盔让他看到一个房间，里面有一名年长的女性和一名年轻女孩，接着头盔将视角转换成年轻女孩的视角。当画面中的女人触摸女孩儿的手臂时，实验者的胳膊也被施加相似的触碰。巴塞罗纳大学的Panha Spindly表示，这项实验旨在检验我们在多大程度上会把虚拟当成现实。

What we're doing this research with reality is that we show it from a first person's perspective, so when you look down at yourself you actually see the girl's body. And this shows to be more important than the synchronous¹ and synchronous stroking.

我们通过使用第一人称视角进行这项关于现实和虚拟的实验，因此，当男性受试者看向自己的时候，映入眼帘的是女性的身体。实际上，这种第一人称视角比同步视觉和触觉信息更加重要。

7 minutes of stroking gets the volunteer comfortable, and then the virtual perspective changes from first to third person and the mood changes. Immediately after the experiment volunteers said on average they felt their arm was being stroked by the virtual woman. Even though the visual image of the girl's arm was less convincing.

长达7分钟的抚摸使受试者感觉很舒服，接着受试者的视角转换为第三者的视角，情况也有变化。受试者普遍对着突如其来有着相同的感觉，他们觉得好像是虚拟的年长女性抽打了他们。即使他们的视角已经不再是年轻女孩的视角了。

We've done another experiment where we actually look at how much realism is important, and it shows that what is important is not the visual quality but just the way virtual reality reacts to what you're doing.

我们还做了另一个实验来验证虚拟现实中最重要的元素，实验结果显示，视觉效果并不是最重要的，最重要的是虚拟现实是如何反馈受试者的行为。

Virtual reality is already being used by the US military to treat troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder², could become more helpful in many other areas.

虚拟现实技术用于美国军方治愈士兵的战后创伤后精神紧张症，这项技术也将广泛应用于其他领域。

If you would have some abuser put into virtual reality where they are actually the victim of the abuse. That could change their view of what's, what they are actually causing to that person.

如果对施暴者使用这项虚拟现实技术，他们就会在虚拟现实中成为自己暴行的受害者。这将会改变他们的视角，使他们认识到对受害人的伤害。

Spindly said the new way of 3D consumer technology such as the wii would make virtual reality common place in the home of the future.

Spindly表示，这项新的3D技术，例如wii游戏机，将使得虚拟现实技术在未来广泛运用。

Steward³, Reuters, Barcelona.

Steward报道，路透社巴塞罗纳消息。

1 synchronous   

adj.同步的

参考例句：

• The message can be used only with synchronous operations.消息只能与同步操作一起使用。
• Synchronous machines do not easily fall out of step under normal conditions.在正常情况下，同步电机不易失去同步。

2 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

3 steward   

n.乘务员，服务员；看管人；膳食管理员

参考例句：

• He's the steward of the club.他是这家俱乐部的管理员。
• He went around the world as a ship's steward.他当客船服务员，到过世界各地。