> wondered what it would be like to adapt and get used to the inverted view
FWIW, I tried this as a student, and in a couple of hours was biking campus paths. Decades ago, but my very fuzzy recollection is the key adaptation was sort of ignoring the oddity and going with familiar behaviors. So reaching to grab an object would "just work", unless I "thought about it" - then the hand would feedback the wrong way, followed by a "stop thinking!" and recovery after the bobble, or by a freeze and trying again. IIRC, it had a similar feel to doing things while viewing myself in a mirror. Meh - I set it aside after a day or so. But YMMV - different brains deal with the world very differently. I can run on spatial/kinesthetic with only spotchecks from vision, so perhaps this was merely tweaking that role. Might be interesting to try learning an unfamiliar physical task while inverted, and watch transfer in the other direction.
FWIW, I tried this as a student, and in a couple of hours was biking campus paths. Decades ago, but my very fuzzy recollection is the key adaptation was sort of ignoring the oddity and going with familiar behaviors. So reaching to grab an object would "just work", unless I "thought about it" - then the hand would feedback the wrong way, followed by a "stop thinking!" and recovery after the bobble, or by a freeze and trying again. IIRC, it had a similar feel to doing things while viewing myself in a mirror. Meh - I set it aside after a day or so. But YMMV - different brains deal with the world very differently. I can run on spatial/kinesthetic with only spotchecks from vision, so perhaps this was merely tweaking that role. Might be interesting to try learning an unfamiliar physical task while inverted, and watch transfer in the other direction.