Photo: secondlivestock.com
If even auto manufacturers like Ford chose the Oculus Rift for their future automobile designs, why not expand the range and start using the device to solve one of the world’s biggest issues like hunger and poverty? An American IT brainiac actually thought of a way to use the glass to make conventional farming popular again.
When “Second Life” sim game started to be popular on a global scale movies like Bruce Willis “Surrogates” came out. But what if we’d told you that an Oculus Rift made to create a virtual reality world for poultry was actually designed? According to its inventor, it’s a possible solution for the need for physical space required in conventional farming.
Believe it or not, the actual Oculus for birds exists and it’s more than just a dream. It’s a project created by the artist, microcontroller programmer and circuit designer, Austin Stewart. He thinks his creation could be a solution for the ethical debates of contemporary animal husbandry and humanity’s increasing immersion. We are talking about the virtual poultry glass of the 21st century that will make the birds, producing the eggs you like having at breakfast so much, experience a “free range” type of reality, while never leaving their “nest”.
The chicken wearing the glass will experience the work as a Power Point presentation and live demonstration of the CCCi (Chiclen-Computer Interface). Even better, the aesthetics of the presentation are intentionally poor-mirroring.
The Second Livestock is effectively a lower scale combination of the Oculus Rift and the multiplayer life sim Second Life. Wore by chicken it envisions tiny virtual-reality headsets that could be put on chickens and even other livestock to give them the impression that they’re living a wonderful, free-range life. The team is working at improving the device and more details can be found on their website.
The only question left to ask is: will that be a dystopian plan or an actual solution?
Believe it or not, the actual Oculus for birds exists and it’s more than just a dream. It’s a project created by the artist, microcontroller programmer and circuit designer, Austin Stewart. He thinks his creation could be a solution for the ethical debates of contemporary animal husbandry and humanity’s increasing immersion. We are talking about the virtual poultry glass of the 21st century that will make the birds, producing the eggs you like having at breakfast so much, experience a “free range” type of reality, while never leaving their “nest”.
The chicken wearing the glass will experience the work as a Power Point presentation and live demonstration of the CCCi (Chiclen-Computer Interface). Even better, the aesthetics of the presentation are intentionally poor-mirroring.
The Second Livestock is effectively a lower scale combination of the Oculus Rift and the multiplayer life sim Second Life. Wore by chicken it envisions tiny virtual-reality headsets that could be put on chickens and even other livestock to give them the impression that they’re living a wonderful, free-range life. The team is working at improving the device and more details can be found on their website.
The only question left to ask is: will that be a dystopian plan or an actual solution?
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