VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 2, 2012 @08:28AM from the why?-who-knows dept.

cylonlover writes "The EU Commission's Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) is working on a 'beaming' telepresence system that is designed to allow users to virtually experience being in a remote location by seeing, hearing and even feeling that location through the sensory inputs of a robot located there. That robot, in turn, would relay the user's speech and movements to the people at that location. Now, two of the CORDIS partners have put an interesting slant on the technology – they've used it to let people interact with rats."

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I have a different term for it by MyLongNickName · 2012-11-02 08:29 · Score: 2, Funny

I have a different term for it. I call it consulting my lawyer.

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want fun? try a haiku by marcello_dl · 2012-11-02 09:00 · Score: 2

the voice of the telepresence bot
like rustling autumn leaves
it's your mother in law

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