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Netflix, and games consoles. It's a quiet health crisis that's damaging the nations' eye sight, posture, and waistlines.But why let humans have all the fun? One Hungarian neuroscientist agreed, and decided to build a gaming system especially for rats so they too can get in on some of the high-octane virtual action that's been ruining our lives.Viktok Tóth spent months building a 'VR system' for rats that allowed them to play the classic shoot-em-up game Doom II and showed off his handiwork on YouTube.Using a 3D printer, a curved monitor, and lots of syrup, Tóth was able to give three rats the experience of a lifetime: bumping into virtual walls while rolling around on a big polystyrene ball and drinking syrup.The three rats, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were named after the creators of Doom II, which Tóth used to make specific levels that rats could wander around in and shoot imps.

id Software shooter Doom – and named them after three of the original game’s key creators: John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall.In his original experiment, neuroengineer Viktor Tóth writes that he set out to “train rodents to play Doom II with full cerebral control”. This involved teaching “rats or mice to kill demons and find the exit point by decoding their motor intent and translating it into in-game actions”.

Oculus, has raised his concerns over hasty pushes to create the metaverse – immersive online worlds merging VR and AR technologies.It’s a view that may be at odds with that of Oculus’ parent company Facebook, which rebranded as “Meta” on October 28, part of a move to switch from being a social media company to “building the metaverse”.