Researchers Developan AR system for Experimenting Fishes

A team of researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has created an AR system that tricks fish’s electric sensing organs in real time. The new invention was created after the researchers tested the station keeping functions of the glass Knifefish. 

The system keeps the fish hidden by creating movements inside the holes. The new research work helped the scientists to know about the autonomous sensing functions which were used by the system to safeguard the fish.

At first, the researchers kept the fish inside a tube and then the motion of the tube was synchronized to the fish’s eyes. Once it was done, the fish started to swim forward and backward, and then the researchers observed the situation where the fish could see that it was directly affecting the motion of the refuge. During the refuge synchronizing with the fish’s motion, the researchers found that the fish wasn’t experiencing the natural feeling. The fish could make out that it was swimming in a virtual environment.

The results of the experiment turned out to be like this- when the stimulus was controlled by the individuals, then the fish’s behavior was different in comparison when the stimulus is played back to the fish.

According to the study, the entire phenomenon took place due to the feedback which was received by the fish in its own movement. Basically, the fish seems to know that what is controlling the sensory world around it.