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the-pi-guy said:

Norion said:

It's hard to imagine that feeling. All I can think of is waking up someday and seeing that your arms have been replaced with smaller ones and how strange that would feel. I guess this is a reason why it's common in VR to not give the player character arms and instead have floating hands.

The reason why you don't give your character arms, is because arms aren't tracked. The controller gets tracked so it's pretty easy to know what your hands are doing. You can do some math to figure out where your arms probably are, but it might be wrong. 

The brain is pretty good at ignoring that you have no arms, it's not as good at ignoring that your arms are in the wrong spot. 

Yeah I know about that part of it. I was wondering if that might also be a factor in why it's done that way to avoid that strange sensation.