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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro....ets-to-increase-milk-production-15880604/amp/

A farmer has turned to virtual reality headsets to make his cooped-up cows think they're outside in a meadow.

Kocak says the move is already paying off. He's given the headsets to two of his cows and noted that milk production went up from 22 litres to 27 litres a day.

 

[lukilladog]

This is so stupid, animal cruelty.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

what a load of bullshit. cows have been getting along just fine without fucking VR headsets. owner is just an attention seeking moron. huur lets slapp some headsets on da coo and we'll be famous and i get more $ from your milk.

if he was serious he'd buy 2 headsets for all the other cows he has. nah that'd be too much money. fuck that.

actually if he was serious about the wellbeing of his fucking cows he'd give them a better quality of life by not locking them up.

 

[TheDreadBaron]

Boooo, poor cows need to be whisked away to the fantasy that they're actually in an open field and not crammed into a stall strapped to a milking machine. Here's an idea to increase production, just let them be actually happy.

 

[dr_octagon]

mootaverse?

fake edit: I'll get my coat

 

[daveonezero]

what a load of bullshit. cows have been getting along just fine without fucking VR headsets. owner is just an attention seeking moron.

No I think the more important point is conditions are so bad that instead of improving those conditions and actually putting them on a pasture they are giving them a fake version.

 

[Outlier]

Someone took that Cyberpunk mission a little too seriously...

 

[Ionian]

5 litres a day? How long will it take to pay off the headsets?

Also that is blinding a creature, you don't have room to pasture simply don't have cows. And he has a massive 2 cows. On VR headsets.

What silicon valley idiot came up with that idea? That's cruelty.

Imagine the amount of grass and land this dude has. Get chickens if you're that much of a fool.

(Side story, friend bought a house and built a chicken coop. I warned him a fox would get in and murder them as the enclosure was shite).


Next visit, "where are your chickens?", "fox got them". With a sad face. I busted out laughing but he was warned.

 

[MachRc]

very true, and Im sorry

 

[AJUMP23]

What are they watching?

 

[Alebrije]

What are they watching?

 

[IDKFA]

That's dumb. VR headsets are designed for humans. Strapping two VR headsets to a cow's face is more likely to cause the animal confusion and more anxiety.

Dumbest thing I've seen in a long time.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Bullshit.


He took that picture and made up that story. Then proceeded to return the headsets.


His cows also have blue hair

 

[cormack12]

His cows also have blue hair

Thats the one who tweeted the story.

 

[GHG]

The cows are literally living out that Matrix life.

 

[BigBooper]

He's probably thrown in a few extra VR calfs mewing to stimulate the mom's production. Meta milk. There's no coming back from that, people.

 

[GloveSlap]

That's dumb. VR headsets are designed for humans. Strapping two VR headsets to a cow's face is more likely to cause the animal confusion and more anxiety.

Dumbest thing I've seen in a long time.

Yeah massive doubts this guy actually modified those headsets in a way that actually works for a cow.

 

[BigBooper]

Yeah massive doubts this guy actually modified those headsets in a way that actually works for a cow.

Yea, there's no way he set their IPD correctly.

 

[GHG]

Yeah massive doubts this guy actually modified those headsets in a way that actually works for a cow.

I dunno... The lenses look pretty big:

 

[jason10mm]

So you are saying that if I put on VR and watch certain videos while pulling something the end resultt will be increased in volume as well?

 

[daveonezero]

This was actually done by a research team a while back.

Russian cows get VR headsets 'to reduce anxiety'

The herd was shown "a unique summer field simulation program" in a bid to boost milk yields.

www.bbc.com

So the fact this guy is doing it and keeping his cows in poor condition is just proof this world is fucked.

This is humans future as well if we keep letting big tech ruin our lives.

 

[cormack12]

I think they are just viewing porn with the milking teats turned on. No wonder they are blowing their milk loads.

 

[Raphael]

Freaking dystopian shit.

 

[Coolwhhip]

This was tested on gamers first with the same results.

 

[p_xavier]

And all of people getting upset at this live in tiny appartments and it's their best ways to get milked.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Lol

 

[Romulus]

Doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Vangu Vegro]

Enter the Mootrix...

 

[cormack12]

Enter the Mootrix...

Damnit V Vangu Vegro not everyone believes what Moopheus believes

 

[Majukun]

blatantly stolen idea

 

[trikster40]

They're really playing the beta of Horizon: Call of the Moooooooooooontain.