‘Abduction’: A VR Nightmare Landing on College Campuses - PETA

You’ve seen it successful fearfulness movies—aliens abducting humans and utilizing them successful experiments. But ideate if you were the 1 connected the table, helpless, incapable to power what was happening to you, and incapable to pass oregon combat backmost arsenic you were poked and prodded for “research.” Pretty terrifying, right?

Well, this is precisely however animals indispensable consciousness erstwhile utilized successful cruel, needless experiments successful laboratories connected campuses each astir the country. For them, the nightmare is real.

That’s wherefore we’re bringing this nightmare to beingness for students with the motorboat of Abduction, a unsocial virtual world acquisition soon landing connected assemblage campuses that location laboratories wherever animals are imprisoned and tormented.

In this eerie experience, visitors volition participate a mysterious motortruck and enactment connected a virtual world headset. They’ll seemingly find themselves stranded successful the godforsaken with friends, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and subjected to a terrifying acquisition akin to what animals endure successful laboratories: They’ll ticker arsenic their friends are subjected to experiments inspired by existent tests conducted connected animals, knowing that they’ll beryllium next.

Abduction, which was filmed successful VR180 with assistance from the virtual world instauration workplace Prosper XR, volition halt astatine respective assemblage campuses, including the following:

• George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), wherever experimenters drilled holes successful the skulls of babe mice successful bid to inject tumor-causing cells into their brains
• Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey), wherever experimenters chopped into the heads of delicate and intelligent monkeys, carved retired a information of their skulls, implanted a signaling chamber, and inserted electrodes into their brains earlier forcing them to respond to images connected a surface successful speech for a “reward” of juice
• University of Massachusetts–Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts), wherever experimenters drill holes successful the skulls of monkeys and implant electrodes, zip-tie the animals into restraining devices, and overheat them with manus warmers successful bid to simulate blistery flashes associated with menopause, which they don’t adjacent experience

Studies amusement that 90% of each basal research, astir of which involves animals, fails to pb to treatments for humans, which is wherefore PETA is pushing universities to pivot to sophisticated, human-relevant probe methods.

Check Out Abduction and Help PETA Free Our Fellow Animals From Labs

Find retired much astir Abduction, and petition that it sojourn your school’s campus. If you privation to assistance PETA extremity the imprisonment of animals successful laboratories, enactment our Research Modernization Deal, a roadmap to regenerate experiments connected animals with modern, human-relevant research.