PiVR: Virtual Reality for Small Animals (2019)

 

The Raspberry Pi based Virtual Reality system (PiVR) is a virtual reality system for small animals (link to publication) that has been featured in Scientific American. The code is open source (BSD license), the source code for all the PiVR software can be found on Gitlab, and you can also find a Bug Tracker on Gitlab.

Trajectory of a Drosophila larva in a virtual odor reality using PiVR. The larva expresses the optogenetic tool Chrimson in the Or42a expressing olfactory sensory neuron.
Trajectory of a Drosophila larva in a virtual odor reality using PiVR. The larva expresses the optogenetic tool Chrimson in the Or42a expressing olfactory sensory neuron.

For a guide of setting up your own PiVR, please visit www.pivr.org