{"id":57411,"date":"2017-05-16T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-vr-developer-created-an-expansive-virtual-world-for-chickens"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:32","slug":"a-vr-developer-created-an-expansive-virtual-world-for-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-vr-developer-created-an-expansive-virtual-world-for-chickens","title":{"rendered":"A VR Developer Created an Expansive Virtual World for Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-vr-developer-created-an-expansive-virtual-world-for-chickens.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Second Livestock is a unique application of virtual reality (VR) that could change animal husbandry and livestock farming. <\/li>\n<li>Developed by design professor Austin Stewart, this VR free-range farm world is a safe haven for chickens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Free-range livestock is going to the next level, thanks to a unique, if seemingly silly idea that has <a href=\"http:\/\/amestrib.com\/news\/isu-design-professor-envisions-virtual-reality-lives-farm-animals\" target=\"_blank\">recently gone viral<\/a>. Second Livestock is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlivestock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a free range world for chickens in virtual reality (VR)<\/a>. And yes, just like most of VR\u2019s current applications, it actually works like a game \u2014 a massively-multiplayer one full of chickens and with no AI bots.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-vr-developer-created-an-expansive-virtual-world-for-chickens\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-vr-developer-created-an-expansive-vir...-chickens\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Livestock is a unique application of virtual reality (VR) that could change animal husbandry and livestock farming. Developed by design professor Austin Stewart, this VR free-range farm world is a safe haven for chickens. Free-range livestock is going to the next level, thanks to a unique, if seemingly silly idea that has recently gone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57526,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57411\/revisions\/57526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}