In a further effort to improve animal welfare... Chickens with Oculus Rifts
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[QUOTE]An assistant professor in design at Iowa State University, Austin Stewart, has released ideas for a project named “Second Livestock” which involves tricking chickens into thinking that they are free range, while they are actually contained within small enclosures. This would be achieved by strapping virtual reality headsets onto farmed chickens. These “Cockulus Rift” headsets would therefore make the chickens believe that they are in a nicer, less stressful environment.[/QUOTE]
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that's kinda depressing to be honest
[QUOTE]“Cockulus Rift”[/QUOTE]
:v:
One step closer to the matrix becoming a reality, but with chickens.
[QUOTE] This would be achieved by strapping virtual reality headsets onto farmed chickens[/QUOTE]
That seems just a wee bit... Overly expensive.
Even a chicken gets an Oculus, but I dont'.
With the chicken population so high....
Sign me up for this!
Dunno how I feel about this, it's really depressing.
This has to be a joke, it HAS to be.
The Meatrix
[QUOTE=seano12;44867001]One step closer to the matrix becoming a reality, but with chickens.[/QUOTE]
Imagen the whole Matrix trilogy now, only this time with Chicks and Cocks
[QUOTE=HAKKAR!!!;44866992]that's kinda depressing to be honest[/QUOTE]
I guess it's better to just let them suffer in that cage?
Still this sounds silly and costly.
[QUOTE=IKTM;44867192]The Meatrix[/QUOTE]
You mean the Poultryx
Wait, didn't we already have a thread on this?
Also, even as a joke it's still an interesting concept.
[editline]21st May 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zero!;44867305]Imagen the whole Matrix trilogy now, only this time with Chicks and Cocks[/QUOTE]
In this version, Neo runs around freaking out, clucking at the top of his voice, to dodge the bullets in this scene.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vs3OS-JMyU[/media]
"Only chicken..."
"Dodge this." *Trinity pecks the agent in the eyeball*
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;44867171]This has to be a joke, it HAS to be.[/QUOTE]
It'd help to read the article
[quote]Is this a big joke? Well, kind of, but not necessarily a futile one. Stewart created this project in order to spur people into talking about animal welfare, and also as a kind of experiment to look at our relationship with technology, and of course to see how many people would actually believe that researchers intend on doing this.[/quote]
[QUOTE=IKTM;44867192]The Meatrix[/QUOTE]
Sounds more like a parody on Trix
"Silly machines! Batteries are for small appliances!"
So people can be elitist about buying VR chicken meat like they do now with any organic food.
[QUOTE=seano12;44867001]One step closer to the matrix becoming a reality, but with chickens.[/QUOTE]
and instead of dumping them into a vat of goo when they die, we dump them in a vat of batter
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