Walking on Mars is smarter Oculus Rift tells you

Concern from Lei feng's network (search for "Lei feng's network", public interest) classmates Oculus Rift should be familiar. This head-mounted VR artifact has been able to buy into the development version, but the team has not given a public release date. However, NASA recently gave us a surprise, Mars Rift can be used to experience walking!

NASA's "Mars experience" is actually a demo, they use "curiosity" and satellite-a large collection of images of Mars, made a 360-degree Stereo Panorama. Thereafter by Oculus Rift with Xbox 360 controller you can look around on Mars. Of course, if one Omni treadmill walking bright came up.

PAX last year, NASA is access to the Rift, and found that this equipment is suitable for their training. And the Omni treadmill deepened this immersive experience.

Currently NASA's JPL team in this emulator image than than 25 cm per pixel, while they will also be based on the return of Mars images enrich existing scene.

In addition to Mars, NASA has made similar plans to bring space station simulation panorama. Next, you just download a few scenes with the Rift at home, you can experience the pleasure of walking on Mars. Moschino iPhone 6 Case

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