This short video from EuroNews is interesting, but I do not think this can end racism. The reasons for racism are more complex than simply not liking or not being able to identify with someone else’s skin colour.
Could they, for example, do an identical experiment for poor and homeless people? How could this be used to combat Islamophobia? This experiment does nothing to help people understand the economic structural system needs to create an ‘Other’ and divide society so the elites can rule.
‘…Their new study shows that by using illusion techniques, it is surprisingly easy to trick people into thinking they have a body part with a different skin colour than their own, or even a different body…’
via Could virtual body swapping reduce racism? | euronews, science.