What is the VisioChick Project?
The general aim of the VisioChick project is to provide new methods and technologies for knowledge transfer in animal husbandry and management with specific focus on animal welfare. Since visual perception in the barn is particularly important for chicken and humans see in a different way, VisioChick provides an approach to explore a barn from the animal perspective by simulating the animal view for the user.
To achieve this, a head-mounted display (HMD) with Augmented Reality (AR) technology was developed in a collaborative project between multiple research institutes. The device is referred to as "Smart Glasses". While the Smart Glasses allows to explore the barn on-site with additional impressions, also methods are needed to provide these insights for the use outside the barn, e.g. in teaching. Therefore we also suggest methods for creating virtual tours based on the captured data by using game engines.
People behind the project
Involved in VisioChick are Prof. Jan-Henrik Haunert, Dorian Baltzer and Shannon Douglas from the University of Bonn, Prof. Inga Tiemann and Dr. Falko Kaufmann from the University of Osnabrück, Prof. Youness Dehbi from the HafenCity University of Hamburg and the industry partner uReality who took over major parts of the technical realization. Technical developments, especially in 3D modelling and game engines were also done by Felix Köcher, student in the Department of Computer Science in Bonn.
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