After flight training, the brain began treating wings more like real limbs In a new study, volunteers were trained to move wings in VR. Here, neuroscientist and study coauthor Yiyang Cai uses the system. Her physical movements (top left) correspond to the real-time visual feedback inside the VR head-mounted display (center). Ziyi Xiong/Beijing Normal University and Yiyang Cai/Peking University In X-Men , Warren Worthington III sprouts huge white wings from his back and shoots into the sky. Scientists have yet to fully turn the comic book gift from fiction into fact, but virtual reality is offering hints of what it’s like to learn to fly. After training to use virtual wings, people’s brains responded to wings more similarly to how they respond to real limbs , making wings seem more like body parts, researchers report May 7 in Cell Reports .…