Vection is a Canadian study tackling an interesting optical illusion – no matter how you look at it. 😉 And today, crew on the Space Station are collecting data for this experiment! 🌀Vection is using virtual reality to study how the spaceflight environment changes the way astronauts judge distances, and how they interpret their own movement, without Earth’s gravity. The study's findings may also enrich research in many areas, including understanding disorders affecting movement and posture, lik

The results of the Vection study are in! 🚀 Researchers studied the optical illusion known as Vection by examining how astronauts judge distances and perceive their own movement in virtual reality while aboard the International Space Station. 🌀 What did we learn? Astronauts’ perception of self-motion remains largely unaffected by time spent in weightlessness. This means that they can adapt to different environments, and they don’t have to rely on objects in motion to gauge their own motion—a cr