A Professor Has Proposed Giving Confined Farm Animals Virtual Reality Headsets
Austin Stewart
Austin Stewart has created a website for a theoretical company that could one day develop that technology. The company, called Second Livestock, is fake, according to The Verge, but it is Stewart's way of showing how a virtual reality world for farm chickens could be implemented.
Stewart's concept is more about provoking serious discussion of ideas for more humane treatment of farm animals than promoting his technology. But when he recently presented his concept for audiences at an Iowa exhibition, he still made an effort to portray it as a legitimate alternative to current farming practices.
"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 Stewart
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.
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