Ever wondered how weird-eyed animals like flies and chameleons see the world? Now you can take a look for yourself.
We’ve shown you simulations of how different animals—cats, dogs, rats, hawks and bees—see the world before. But this time, the videos show footage taken from real-world devices that replicate the visual capacities of animals with even weirder sight: flies and chameleons.
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-see-the-world-as-an-animal-1481007848
The results, as you’ll see, are pretty crazy. You can see users able to walk backwards through doorways, see huge sweeping panoramas at once, and even look in a crazy multitude of angles without moving their head at all. But, hey, I bet they’re not suited to staring at a monitor all day are they, hmmm? [New Scientist]
