The virtual reality videos of the chicken’s life stages can be viewed on a mobile phone, tablet or desktop, with or without a headset. – Photo: Galama Media
Signs are growing that virtual reality is beginning to make a real difference to both consumers and poultry employees.
The National Chicken Council (NCC) announced last month that it had developed a series of 360 degree virtual reality videos showing the various stages of a chicken’s life during modern, commercial production.
Consumers can see how broilers are raised
The new experience is part of NCC’s Chicken Check In programme, which serves as a resource for consumers to get the information they seek about how most broilers are raised. The virtual reality videos of the chicken’s life stages can be viewed on a mobile phone, tablet or desktop, with or without a headset. Viewers are able to watch the video in a traditional manner from a two-dimensional perspective, but unlike passively watching, the video can now rotate to see up, down, front, back and side-to-side from the original starting point.
As a result, consumers can now experience the following 360 degree video segments in the hatchery, the broiler farm and the processing plant.
Immersive experience
NCC spokesman Tom Super said: “We know that people want more information about chicken production and that most have not visited a chicken farm, so we are bringing the farm to them. “Through our virtual reality tours, viewers are able to see how most chickens are hatched, raised and processed in the US – it’s a fully immersive experience.”
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Source: Poultry World