VVirtual Reality3/26/2026

Training transfer of reachability judgments from virtual to physical environments

Abstract Can virtual feedback training improve performance in the physical world? Can enactment enhance this feedback training effect? This study addresses these questions using two affordance judgment (AJ) tasks, implemented in both physical (PE) and virtual (VE) environments. Sixty-four young adults completed two tasks. The Aperture Task (Oculus Rift head-mounted display, HMD) was included to test replication of our prior findings from Gölz et al. (Virtual Real 27:1697–1715, 2023). We further