VR Chiriyakhana: A Virtual Zoo Using Google Cardboard
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VR Chiriyakhana: A Virtual Zoo Using Google Cardboard Towfik Ahmed1 · Mohammad Jaber Hossain1 Received: 3 September 2020 / Accepted: 2 October 2020 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020
Abstract The application of virtual reality in entertainment and education industry is growing rapidly day by day. The proposed method offers a new experience for animal lovers and zoo visitors by gaining a new experience of surfing at the virtual zoo using the Google cardboard. Additionally, the study provides informative view to the students and creates possibilities for unable people to visit zoo virtually which delivers 3D computer generated animal objects with virtual surroundings using animations and videos from the real environment which includes vocal expression and scientific description of different animals available in traditional zoos of Bangladesh. An android-based mobile application developed using unity platform which consist of eight different animals with their different activity. The major findings of the study, virtual zoo provides the visiting opportunity regardless of seasonal weather and pandemic situation. AR based zoo helps the visitors to watch the animals more precisely and more interesting way by getting 360 video of the animals. The proposed method supports the early age students to know the physical view of different animals and their scientific name which benefits to identify different animals in real life situation. Qualitative feedback collected from the 25 participants who had experience visiting the traditional zoo where participants showed positive attitude in experiencing virtual zoo. The findings from the participants’ feedback, the implication of proposed system creates impressive contribution in education and entertainment industry. Keywords Virtual reality · Virtual zoo · Google cardboard
Introduction Virtual reality creates new dimension in different areas of education [1, 2], medical science and scientific research. Besides it initiates a great impact on entertainment industry. Gaming, tourism using VR get most user attention through the advantage of being in the environment virtually. People in Bangladesh are getting more and more interested in tourism in recent years specially visiting the place with natural resources, but due to the pandemic situation most of the people got stuck in the home which This article is part of the topical collection “Advances in Computational Approaches for Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, IoT and Cloud Applications” guest edited by Bhanu Prakash K. N. and M. Shivakumar. * Mohammad Jaber Hossain [email protected] Towfik Ahmed [email protected] 1
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Leading University, Sylhet, Bangladesh
creates a distance from the nature. The proposed system introduced a virtual tour experience in a zoo which allows watching eight different animals with their different activities like roaming around the fence, the way how they approach for the attack along with their vocal expression. The
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