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Putting VR Goggles...on Mice. But why? (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 1 year ago by dominiquec to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The mice can have a little VR. As a treat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the foundation of the Jurassic Park sequel we deserve

[–] dominiquec 6 points 1 year ago

I was thinking more of Pinky and The Brain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These experiments are pretty cool, and we can learn a lot about the animal's interactions without having to follow them around and hope they run into a scenario.

There's also this video by Tom Scott about "VR for locusts" which goes into why these experiments are cool

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRIBVykhpC4

The downside is you need to be careful extrapolating since the VR setup might influence the results, but that's also true for most other observation methods in biological research