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janrinok
on Friday November 29 2019, @04:08PM
from the wait-until-they-start-using-social-media dept.
from the wait-until-they-start-using-social-media dept.
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The herd donned VR systems adapted for the "structural features of cow heads" and were shown a "unique summer field simulation program".
Moscow's Ministry of Agriculture and Food cited research which they say has shown a link between a cow's emotional experience and its milk yield.
Initial tests reportedly boosted "the overall emotional mood of the herd".
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50571010
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Russian Cows Get VR Headsets 'to Reduce Anxiety'
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday November 29 2019, @04:14PM (3 children)
My guess: the cows were NOT wandering around in a field where they could step into a gopher hole and break a leg.
Hmmmm....were they standing in a pen for unbelievable hours with no exercise and getting milked like a teenage boy alone in his room with pornhub?
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday November 29 2019, @04:21PM
Yes, that's the vast majority of animal husbandry in the 21st century.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 29 2019, @04:54PM (1 child)
Throw in a cow-sized Omni Treadmill with the VR headsets, and these cows might have a slightly better life.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Friday November 29 2019, @06:34PM
Or we could just cut 'em loose
Let's give them Twitter accounts. Fending off lawsuits will keep them occupied.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Friday November 29 2019, @04:17PM (2 children)
So with the VR-market not really materializing for the PC and consoles is this the new VR-market? Cows and farm animals. You never have to let them out again, they can be trapped forever in their pens and milked for days.
Moloko ... Moloko Plus ... Clockwork Orange flashbacks ...
(Score: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Friday November 29 2019, @06:34PM (1 child)
Sounds like The Matrix for cows. Until one day, one of them takes the red pill... Far Side, watch out!
"I know what you're thinking. Why didn't I take the blue pill?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 29 2019, @07:25PM
Should the cows eat the green grass or the red grass?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 29 2019, @04:26PM
In Soviet Russia, VR Headsets reduce you!
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday November 29 2019, @04:28PM (1 child)
Matrix cows are yummy.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 29 2019, @06:08PM
Mootrix
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 29 2019, @04:43PM (1 child)
or they start viewing cow porn.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday November 29 2019, @04:51PM
Considering how lazy and hapless most bulls are and they they tend to need a bit of a helping hand from time to time I feel sad for the cows. It's going to be some shitty amateur cow porn. They better have some real stud bulls available. So many udders tho ... cow-on-cow action?
That said perhaps those green luscious fields, add in a sun lamp and a fan and they might believe that they are actually outside, they experience in VR constitute cow-porn?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 29 2019, @04:46PM
Other reports are saying the cows have a steak in this VR company.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Friday November 29 2019, @05:24PM (3 children)
We need a control group with VR headsets that are basically just glass lenses. And scientists walking around paying attention to the control cows same as the others.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 29 2019, @06:25PM (2 children)
This is an industry we're talking about. If it works, and "reducing anxiety" is found to reduce costs, then every cow is going to end up with a crummy VR headset strapped on. #Mootrix
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Friday November 29 2019, @08:19PM (1 child)
Well, considering methane as an energy source, cows are a more logical battery than people anyway.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday November 30 2019, @01:42AM
Methane... "combined with a form of fusion"!
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 29 2019, @05:49PM
Are they in congress questioning witnesses and suing twitter users? Sounds very relaxing. /s
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @03:17AM
I guess Devin Nunes will have to get his cow one of these, I'll bet Moscow Mitch can hook him up. ;-)
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday November 30 2019, @12:53PM
So I read the headline and think, I didn't believe "The Far Side" had re-launched yet...so I checked:
https://www.thefarside.com/ [thefarside.com]
Nope, not yet. Holy shit this isn't a parody!
How will Gary Larson cope with a reality weirder than his cartoons?
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday November 30 2019, @02:01PM
chinese Moon gel
moon talking to coral reefs
trees have social welfare in forest
navy admits ufos freak them out
cows get vr headsets before me
But as I have said elsewhere, that it is good for cows, makes you wonder if vr will turn you into more of a cow.
As I see it, the world is so unstable right now, to turn away for even twenty minutes is a risk.
We have no reason to trust any of this system, that there isn't an accidental war every second is a miracle, not some sort of thing we should take for granted, not some time to ramp up our docility and weaken our already tenuous connection to the physical world.
But who listens to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @03:53PM
Moovies