Sensitivity of the Visual System in Virtual Reality

student wearing VR goggles and holding devices in hands

Virtual reality technology enables us to elicit novel experiences of postural threat in a safe and controlled environment. This project seeks to characterize the sensitivity of the visual system and its contribution to balance control when exposed to virtual perturbations during instances of postural threat.

  • Sensori-motor

First Nations land acknowledegement

The UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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