CattleVR is an immersive virtual reality experience that examines cattle handling training.
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00:00Hi, I'm Kat from Think Digital, the creators of FarmVR, and I'm here today with Dr Mandy
00:06Carr from the University of Adelaide to talk about CattleVR, a tool that we have created
00:11to help teach people about flight zones and safety in the yards when handling cattle.
00:16The students will put the headset on and they'll come face to face with our Droughtmaster animal.
00:21Around the animal we've created a zone, in that zone we've created an inner and an outer
00:25edge for a pressure zone.
00:27What I like to be able to do is have it up for other students to see, as well as for
00:31me to see what the students are doing.
00:33I suppose the best thing about VR is that we can replicate those unsafe experiences
00:37without actually causing harm or injury to people or to animals.
00:42So what we were finding, students often come into programs without a lot of cattle handling
00:46experience and as a result they were behaving unsafely.
00:49Yeah, they were getting very unsafe, spooking the cattle, coming up behind them and then
00:53losing confidence to actually want to go in there again.
00:56So from one educator to another, CattleVR will allow you to innovate the classroom,
01:01have better student engagement and also has benefits for the animal.
01:04So if you'd like to find out more, go to cattlevr.com.