Putting VR Goggles...on Mice. But why?

dominiquec@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 39 points –
VR Goggles for Mice. Wait, What?
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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