What we can learn from immersing mice, fruit flies, and zebrafish in VR

Scientists have created a virtual reality system that allows fruit flies to fly around a virtual pillar, and zebrafish to swim with aliens from the video game Space Invaders. The goal is not to give animals a good time, but for scientists to study how mice, flies, and fish respond to the VR worlds in real time. It’s basically a new tool to study animal behavior in the lab.
The VR system, called FreemoVR, pretty much resembles a holodeck from the TV show Star Trek. It’s an arena surro