Diving into virtual reality (VR) can do some strange things to the brain, as a new study highlights. In an experiment, volunteers given VR wings for a couple of hours started thinking of these wings in a similar way as actual body parts. A part of the brain called the occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) is used to visually process body parts , and experts think it's been hardwired by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to recognize human appendages like hands and feet. This new study, from