An exploratory study on the perception of optical illusions in real world and virtual environments

Abstract

Virtual environments offers the possibility to simulate the real world as well as the effects like optical illusions. They are images with special arranged content to pretend the human visual system to observe non-existent content for instance. In this study we use several well known optical illusions implemented in real world and in a virtual environment. They were present to subjects to explore their properties and their perception within the different environments.