ETC’s Physical Presence Pet Redefines VR Companionship

News - Carnegie Mellon University: Physical Presence Pet (PPP), a project developed by a team of Entertainment Technology Center students, began with a simple idea: making a VR pet that could substitute for the real ones they’d left behind to come to Carnegie Mellon University. What they ended up creating was much bigger: an unprecedented experiment in virtual companionship that cut across disciplines and anticipates new ways of integrating technology into our world.