Virtual Barn Friends

Recreating Human-Animal Interaction Using AR

Zixuan Luo
MArch I 2023
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1 Your Virtual Barn Friends

Interacting with nature has always been a source of relief for me. Although this opportunity wouldn’t be always readily available, the implementation of AR could recreate this experience any time.

This project aims to generate animals such as chickens in Urban settings using AR. Instead of focusing on complex animations of the animal itself, the project will focus more on creating a sense of interaction between the user and animals.

For example, the chickens will be able to do some simple interactions with the users such as walking towards you when you show your hands and stop when you wave your hands. The users can even “feed” the chicken by throwing out “food”, and the animals will then walk towards the “food” to get it.

Project video
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2 Code structures
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3 Project interface
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4 Different scenarios