A Professor Has Proposed Giving Confined Farm Animals Virtual Reality Headsets
May 21, 2014, 20:07 IST
"My goal with the presentation is to make it so people are not sure if I'm serious,
- See more at: http://amestrib.com/news/isu-design-professor-envisions-virtual-reality-lives-farm-animals#sthash.NhWfNvHB.dpuf "My goal with the presentation is to make it so people are not sure if I'm serious - See more at: http://amestrib.com/news/isu-design-professor-envisions-virtual-reality-lives-farm-animals#sthash.NhWfNvHB.dpuf "My goal with the presentation is to make it so people are not sure if I'm serious," Stewart told the Ames Tribune. Austin StewartA person uses the Oculus Rift and Stewart's Chicken-Computer Interface, with the virtual world insetCurrently, some chickens are allowed to walk around in small spaces for an hour per day, the Second Livestock website points out. But by creating a virtual reality world for those chickens, they can have the experience of living free-range lives, moving freely throughout their virtual environment just as they would in the outdoors without the risk of injuries or predators. Stewart acknowledges that his system isn't financially feasible at the moment. "Right now, it would be far too expensive to actually implement this full system," Stewart told the Ames Tribune, adding that "in order to ask the question in a way that really makes it real for people, I had to show that this technology is plausible." So far, Stewart has created a virtual world using 3D computer software and tested it on humans with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.