The video below is from Akron Zoo, but I'm seeing more and more zoos and aquariums jumping on the virtual bandwagon. I have very mixed feelings about this. One one hand, it allows visitors to have an experience that they might otherwise never be able to have, such as swimming with sharks or interacting with a troop of mountain gorillas. On the other hand, I worry about the message that it sends - virtual does not equal in person and actually experiencing animals in real life. Will a day come when everyone is so enraptured with these VR experiences (maybe in private homes by then) that we failed to notice that the animals depicted in them have all gone extinct?
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