The folks at Singapore’s Mixed Reality Lab have created a VR video game that gets your hamster in on the action — because there’s an obvious need:
The group is in the midst of designing a game called “Mice Arena”, wherein the human player is pursued by an on-screen avatar controlled by a real world hamster, which chases a piece of motorized bait corresponding to the human’s position on the in-game map. What’s more, the hamster’s game space — a specially designed tank — actually adjusts its terrain to match the on-screen action through a series of actuators underneath the floor. Future games from the collaborative — and we’ll leave the jokes to you on this one — will incorporate decidedly less pet-like animals in the fun, with tentative titles such as (we’re not making this up): “Chicken Petman” and “Jellyfishtrone.”