article_snippet.sent: Oculus said our brain never sees the real world, but instead infers our brain based on the 'sparse' data our brain receives and used a series of optical illusions to make this point.
article_snippet.sent: For example, Oculus explained that humans only have three colour sensors, we can’t see infrared or ultraviolet and we have a blind spot in each eye.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Our visual data is actually astonishingly sparse and
article_snippet.sent: even if Our were able to accurately record and process every photon that reaches Our eyes, Our’d still have too little data to be able to reconstruct the world accurately,' Oculus said.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Our visual system takes Our visual system best guess and sends that to the conscious mind,’ Oculus continued. '
article_snippet.sent: The way that the brain compensates for the limited data the brain receives is by maintaining a model of the real world that the brain constantly updates as new data comes in.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Abrash, chief scientist from Oculus recently used this image to show how vision is simply Google perception of the world, but isn't realty.
article_snippet.sent: Your visual system is reverse engineering reality rather than just recording Your visual system.