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I thought that if you wear upside-down goggles, the brain adapts and this becomes the new normal. Would the same apply to him?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles

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A quick Google search implies that these haven’t been proper experiments. It seems as if the brain doesn’t necessarily learn to flip the image, but rather learns to somewhat process the stuff upside-down. A bit like learning to play video games with the controller after using only mouse and keyboard.

The real test as to whether the brain learns to flip the image would be if the goggle-user could read upside-down text after using the goggles for a few weeks, without having read text during that time.

The worst feeling is playing a game without the correct[0] vertical look setting.

[0] inverted.

just experienced that yesterday after years of not having used a gamepad with analog sticks; why is inverted not the default for analog sticks? Yet with my mouse I prefer non-inverted.. the brain is weird.

Depends on what type of game. If the mouse is controlling the player's head in first person, then I expect non-inverted. If the mouse is controlling the cockpit of some flying type of vehicle in first person, then I expect inverted.

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