Animals don’t understand virtual reality, and unless somebody releases a prototype that you can put on a cat’s head without getting your arms ripped to shreds, they never will. Combining covered eyes with domestic animals’ tendency to get underfoot at the worst possible moment is a recipe for disaster, as my cat discovered when it rubbed against me during a particularly tense moment in Resident Evil 7 (sorry Humphries, I thought you were a blood-thirsty monster, intent on tearing me to pieces. It turns out that only one of those things is actually true.)
Cornish indie outfit Triangular Pixels has an interesting solution to this problem: bring the cat into the game. Using the Vive tracker add-on, which allows you to bring real objects into the virtual world, the team has hacked a variety of Steam games bring their cat with them into the game. Cats are about as helpful in-game as they are in real life, but at least you can avoid an unfortunate trip/vet bill.
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Source: Alphr