[cmehdy]

A few years ago, I was lucky to work with the brilliant Japanese researchers at the Cyber Interface Lab/Hirose-Tanikawa lab (The University of Tokyo).

Amongst their projects (involving AR, VR and multi-modal devices), some students explored various ways to play with our perceptions and define more sharply the interactions and priorities of our senses. Incredible experiments involving simple contraptions as well as more advanced VR, and a lot of scientific creativity (see [1], particularly Multimodal interfaces)

Amongst those projects, Yuki Ban's "Magic Pot" was very similar to what you described, and I remember being almost upset at the realization that the sense we tend to trust the most (vision) can also drive us in the wrong direction the fastest. (see [2] and [3] for more info)

[1] http://www.cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/

[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2343470

[3] http://www.drunk-boarder.com/works/magicpot/