Oliver Kannape

@oakannape.bsky.social

Director of the #VirtualMedicineCentre at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). #medicalXR for patient care, clinical research, and more. #VirtualReality #CogNeuro #spatialComputing he/him

Lilliputian hallucinations: “visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.” …can we link this to body perception and create a VR version?

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

bbc.com

Tried to find an opportune moment when the line to test the meta boba HMD wasn’t too long 😅 NGL that extended field of view is amazing 🤯 SIGGRAPH2025 General critique of VR demos remains that… we need bodies in VR 🤣 enough with the disembodied views. “floating in a most peculiar way”

Awkward selfie wearing the meta boba headset.

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