Google s AI-based terrarium simulates real-world weather conditions

San Francisco June 6 (IANS) An Indian-origin inventor has created a voice controlled terrarium that can simulate weather conditions around the world inside a box as part of Google s "experimental project".
"Project Oasis" brings nature and technology together and lets users interact with them using voice. It can mimic rain fog clouds as well as sunshine.
"Project Oasis is a self-sustaining plant ecosystem that reflects outside weather patterns by creating clouds rain and light inside a box " read the project s description on its website.
"You can talk to it to ask about weather or ask it to create certain conditions. It currently recreates rain clouds and lighting in a self sufficient closed and living ecosystem " said Harpreet Sareen the inventor of the project in a video posted on the website.
Made with Google s tools such as Dialogflow and Cloud Pub/Sub at the Google Creative Lab "Project Oasis is self sufficient closed ecosystem and a simple experiment to expand human conversation with technology and the natural world" said Sareen.
Users can build their own terrarium by visiting the official Project Oasis Github page.

--IANS rt/mag/mr