Psychologists and computer scientists at the University of Manchester have created a virtual reality game that they claim will "provide the most objective study of telepathy to date." In the game, two participants enter separate virtual rooms containing a random selection of objects. One person is asked to identify the object that the other is interacting with. From a press release:
Dr Toby Howard said: "This system has been designed to overcome the many pitfalls evident in previous studies which could easily be manipulated by participants to produce an effect which looks like telepathy but is not.
"By creating a virtual environment we are creating a completely objective environment which makes it impossible for participants to leave signals or even unconscious clues as to which object they have chosen."
