Is it possible to augment the human body's muscles or nerves to simulate weight and force?

Decades in the future, people have been able to augment their own sensory inputs in their brains and nerves to feel, see, taste and touch things that are not really there. Also, they can modify their muscular activity to make it consistent with the augmented reality.

An example is if someone is touching a virtual wall that doesn't exist in reality. They would be able to sense and feel the wall as if it was there. If they tried to apply pressure to the wall. Their muscles or nerves would instantly freeze and act like the wall actually existed; however, if the user tried to run into the wall, inertia would drag them across the solid as if it didn't exist, because their momentum would carry them on, even if the muscles would not be allowed to exert force to advance at that precise moment.

Now this made me wonder. Could it be possible to use technology to weaken the muscles or nerves on certain moments where the user was to pick up simulated objects that have "weight"?

For a follow up, let's say a virtual boxer were to punch you in the face, instead of the force coming from the boxer. It would instead by activated by the neck, back and leg muscles to twitch backward as if you actually did get punched.

So could this simulation of force also be possible?

posted over 6 years ago

Red_Wasp‭

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