It's almost unbelievable, but according to this YouTube clip, NASA's new VR app can even simulate weightlessness. The clip shows how astronauts use the application to prepare for space. In the virtual ISS, users practise with virtual tools as if they were in a real spaceship in space.
The detailed virtual NASA Space Station is of course based on a real model. In addition, the application was developed through discussions with several real astronauts, the VR Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston and the company Magnopus realised in Los Angeles.
A short trip into space is so easy
While many people dream of being an astronaut, only around 500 people have been to space. Thanks to Mission: ISS and Oculus Touch, the experience is now possible in your own living room. A quick walk in space, viewing the Earth from a completely different perspective or tinkering with the spaceship - anything is possible and without any risk.
Open to the public
Last year, the US space agency Headlines with their VR underwater training and now anyone can join in. The video explains that NASA has made the application available to the public so that future astronauts can be recruited. Mission: ISS is therefore available at Oculus available free of charge.
Get to know professions
An exciting idea for all companies and sectors to present a profession or even their own company. This gives potential employees and students a good idea of what the job entails and what the environment will be like. This would also be ideal for careers advice centres, so that interested parties can get a brief taste of different professional fields.
Into space at school
The application sets another milestone in VR in interactive education. Users learn a great deal about the history of the ISS and hear various stories from astronauts in a series of immersive videos. In the USA, there is even a pilot project for high school students in which they have access to the application.
Source: futurism.com / Oculus
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