A farmer has turned to digital actuality headsets to make his cooped-up cows suppose they’re outdoors in a meadow.
Izzet Kocak, from Turkey, has turned to the high-tech headgear after seeing a research suggesting it makes the cows happier. This, in flip, means they produce extra milk.
Kocak says the transfer is already paying off. He’s given the headsets to 2 of his cows and famous that milk manufacturing went up from 22 litres to 27 litres a day.
And what are the cows seeing via the VR goggles? Apparently, it’s visions of the surface world.
‘They're watching a inexperienced pasture and it offers them an emotional increase. They're much less burdened,’ he mentioned.
Izzet has beforehand used classical music to attempt to soothe his cattle. However he says he’s been so impressed with the headsets, he plans to purchase ten extra of them.
The headsets have been developed with vets and first examined on a farm in Moscow.
Farmers labored with builders, vets and consultants on the Krasnogorsk farm close to Moscow, to beam the cattle a simulation of a summer time subject.
To make the imagery work, IT specialists wanted to tweak the color palette within the software program to make it appropriate to the animal’s distinctive imaginative and prescient. Cows can’t see crimson or inexperienced – they’re solely capable of understand boring shades of yellow and blue.
However the Russian Ministry of Agriculture is satisfied the trick does work. In an announcement in 2019, officers mentioned: ‘environmental circumstances have a big influence on cow well being and, as a consequence, the standard and amount of milk produced.’
Including that the headsets: ‘decreased nervousness and improved total emotional temper within the herd’.
Naturally, pictures of the experiment have generated some laughs on social media during the last couple of years, with many individuals referring to the experiment as ‘The Matrix for cows’.
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