An immersive experience to promote interspecies empathy and understanding

Equine Eyes is a research project which explores methods for increasing interspecies empathy and understanding through embodiment and play. The project uses bespoke, custom built, immersive technology to allow the wearers to ‘see like a horse’ and asks them to consider how we might create more inclusive, shared, more than human futures that understand non-human animals on their own terms.

Associate Head of School – School of Communication and Media

Alan Hook

Hardware

Prototype 006 (in featured images) is a bespoke immersive headset built around the Oculus CV1, the Prototype 007 showcased at Beyond, and the final form, is a custom built immersive headset which has been developed using Raspberry Pi so is fully wireless and mobile.