Will people be vegetarians when becoming cattle in the virtual world?

ByLockheed Martin

Stanford University'sVirtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL)Conducted an experiment to reduce the beef intake of subjects by virtual experiencing the world of cattle using the virtual reality program which can experience the virtual world created by computer.

If You Know How a Cow Feels, Will You Eat Less Meat ?: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=if-you-know-how-cow-feels-will-you-eat-less-meat


The contents of the experiment is a shockingly shocking sense that participants who became cattle are poked with cattle bars and finally feel the feeling of cows to be edible by being driven into a slaughterhouse reproduced in the virtual world thing. After the experiment, the participants who became cattle recorded what they had in a week. This research has not ended yet, do people really eat meat? Although it has not been clarified yet, according to participants' comments, "I felt that I was a cow", "It was very sad when I was forced to slaughter house and I will die now I was really sad when I was being touched by the cattle catch stick ", I can see that the subject sympathizes with the cow.


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It is said that the amount of grain necessary to produce 1 kg of beef is 10 kg or more, and it is believed that reducing consumption of beef and increasing vegetarian diet instead, will solve the food problem. In other words, it is the subject behind this experiment that it might be able to solve food problems by becoming cattle in the virtual world.

ByFrapestaartje

Attempts have been made to change human behavior patterns through such virtual experiences. For example, VHIL is doing another experiment that "cuts trees in the virtual world". Subjects who cut down trees say they reduced their paper usage by remembering their virtual experiences.

New virtual reality research - and a new lab - at Stanford
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/april/virtual-reality-trees-040811.html


The movie that understands the state of this experiment is here.

Virtual Reality changes Real-Life Behavior - YouTube


Participants in the experiment will wear such a head mounted display on their heads.


With this, participants' visibility spreads a pre-programmed 3D virtual world.


In addition, grasping the metal device (image of hapic device) in the image, you can experience the feel of cutting down the tree with the chainsaw.


Participant's view is like this. Cut out the tree reproduced in 3D with a chainsaw.


It is very real, even though it is a virtual world because not only the sound but also the vibration of the chain saw is transmitted.


The tree was cut down.


Participants who cut down the trees in the virtual world said, "It's strange feeling, although I cut down trees, such trees (in reality) do not exist ..." I feel confused.


Cody Karutz, who conducted the experiment, said, "The experience of knocking down trees in the virtual world will be the first step in thinking about how much your own actions taken in the real world will affect the environment." I will.


Researchers at Stanford University said that people who experienced the world of cows reduced carnivorousness and people who had experienced cutting down trees refrained from consumption of paper, The action inClimate changeHow much will it affect? It seems that I expect to have the possibility of thinking about that.