![]() More than two thousand years ago he performed the same exercise Bailenson was conducting - getting people to put themselves in the hooves of an animal. For I had been discussing this type of perspective-taking with my freshman class in relation to Apuleius’ Latin novel, The Golden Ass.Ī native of Madaura in North Africa (125-170CE), Apuleius asked readers to imagine themselves as a donkey instead of a cow. Having read about this experiment in Jeremy Bailenson’s Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality is, How it Works, and What it Can Do, I felt a sense of déjà vu. “I felt as if I was in the place of a cow,” confessed one participant. ![]() With the aid of special goggles and gloves provided by the Stanford Lab, they had drunk from a virtual trough, had eaten virtual hay, and were now prodded to their virtual death. The students were understandably terrified as they headed to their slaughter. ![]()
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