What Virtual Reality Might Do To Our Nervous Systems

Vision has a general advantage, in humans, over touch, so the virtual reality environment should be OK. And yet! “Touch is the fact-checking sense. … Touching is more psychologically reassuring than seeing. Touch does not always make us experience things better, but it certainly makes us feel better about what we experience. Even when we can see that the keys are in our bags, we are much more certain that they are once we’ve touched them.”