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This Chinese zoo lets visitors see dinosaurs using virtual reality
But not everyone is impressed...
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If you've ever dreamed of visiting Jurassic Park, a zoo in southern China could be for you.
Guangzhou Zoo is promising to let visitors "interact" with dinosaurs and some of the world's most famous animals through the comfort of a VR headset.
But it's safe to say not everyone is a fan. "It was weird to see fake animals through VR when there are real animals in the zoo,” the South China Morning Post reported one netizen as writing on social media.
A fair comment, considering the last dinosaurs were made extinct close to sixty-five million years ago.
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