{"id":387,"date":"2025-08-12T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:32:29","slug":"russian-cows-wear-vr-systems-to-reduce-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/russian-cows-wear-vr-systems-to-reduce-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian cows wear VR systems to reduce anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Can you imagine a scene, where cows are\nwearing VR glasses? No, you are absolutely right. This is really funny and\nunbelievable to imagine a cow wearing virtual reality glasses. But dairy\nfarmers in Russia are making their cattle wear VR (Virtual Reality) devices and\nhoping that their cows will be more relaxed while producing milk. Keeping their\ncows stress free is the major reason of this practice. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sounds like a story from 2000 AD\ncomic, making a strange point about a dystopian society, but the Moscow\nMinistry of Agriculture and Food<\/strong> has released Pictures of these cattle wearing\nspecially designed VR devices as proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are number of different studies that show that there is a relation between a cow\u2019s emotional state and its daily milk yield. Before this, we\u2019ve heard of dairy farmers playing classical songs in their farms for their cows in order to lower their stress level and increase the daily milk production. But as technology is enhancing, new mood-altering solutions are being introduced. For example; the RusMoloko farm<\/strong> in Moscow (Russia) recently equipped its cattle with VR devices adapted for the \u201cstructural features of cow heads\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Virtual Reality cows<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well, we are living in digital world so\nwhy not cows experience the same. As this a 21st<\/sup> century, farmers\nand dairy owners are currently experimenting with these virtual reality\nheadsets on their cows. Virtual reality could really ensure that cows\nexperience the minimum stress and improve the quality of milk.<\/strong> So, what do\nthe cows see through these virtual reality glasses, definitely flowering\nmeadows under the sun, may be a cow\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What ministry\u2019s press release has to say?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ministry\u2019s press release concluded\nthat “To solve pressing problems in milk production, experts are increasingly\nbeing involved not only in specialized fields but also specialists in the field\nof IT technologies\u201d. The ministry\u2019s press release<\/strong> also stated that “The\ndevelopers of the virtual reality<\/strong> or VR studio<\/strong> are coming up in collaboration\nwith veterinarians and consultants from the production, adapted human virtual\nreality devices taking into account the structural features of the head of cows\u201d.\nBased on numerous studies of cattle’s vision, showing cows better perceiving\nshades of the red part of the spectrum and weaker green and blue tones, virtual\nreality<\/strong> architects also created a unique summer field simulation\nprogram.”\n\nThis is still very much in the testing phase,\nbut the ministry reports that already they’re recording a “decrease in\nanxiety and an increase in the overall emotional mood of the herd”.\nThough, the positive impact of the VR glasses<\/strong> on milk yields has yet to\nbe confirmed.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you imagine a scene, where cows are wearing VR glasses? No, you are absolutely right. This is really funny and unbelievable to imagine a cow wearing virtual reality glasses. But dairy farmers in Russia are making their cattle wear VR (Virtual Reality) devices and hoping that their cows will be more relaxed while producing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}