With the help of virtual reality can feel like a cow

Employees at Stanford University have developed a technology that allows a person to convey sensations cows intended for slaughter.

When the volunteers participating in the experiment, put on special equipment, "dipped" in their virtual reality laboratory of the university seemed to have turned into pasture. Researchers sent volunteers to the feeders and tells them how to manage a virtual cow, and then people went into the role and began to identify themselves with the "Text».

An unusual experiment was started for people visiting the cow's skin, he could feel what the animal is experiencing, which are ready for slaughter. As one of the leaders of the study Joshua Bostick: "We are really interested in the theory of empathy. If you can mentally turn into a cow, which is waiting for the massacre, it will change your attitude to the consumption of meat ».

Some of the volunteers after the experiment said that it made them think about giving up meat eating, while others admitted that even after such an experience, they are not ready to change their eating habits.



via factroom.ru