Website review: NASA Dreams of an Interplanetary Se...
DarbukaGirl discovered this in Science/Tech
•4 reviews since Jan 2, 2008
science, virtual-reality
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DarbukaGirl discovered 7 months ago- WIRED.COM By Kevin Holden 01.03.08 | 12:00 AM When NASA begins launching astronaut teams on 800-day missions to Mars, one of the greatest survival tests these explorers will face is the inevitable alienation they'll experience with their remoteness from Earth and the harshness of the frozen Red Planet.
- SpaceMonkeyZero rated 7 months ago
- ... And with a 40+ minute lag time ... What's the use?
- socalsamba rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "But NASA thinks it has an answer to the psychological challenge of interplanetary isolation. While aerospace engineers are designing the Ares rockets to be deployed in the Mars missions, a more starry-eyed contingent at NASA is testing networking and virtual reality technologies that they think will connect the first wave of Mars pioneers with their families, friends and colleagues back on Earth, in a 3-D virtual world cut from the mold of Second Life or World of Warcraft."
- meatbot rated 7 months ago
- This is a GREAT idea. When VR is legitimized for a situation like this it will become easier for all of us ground-lings to experience it, too. The sad thing is that we've probably had the tech to make VR something immersive for years!! I remember as a kid trying out VR at Disney World and it was crude as hell but that was in 1995. Dammit! Second Life has been around for a few years now and from what I can see it's world is beautifully rendered and all that's missing is the novel combination of Human interfaces to make it immersive like the space around you.
VR will have it's side-effects and it's the same people who couldn't leave their computer to stop playing WOW that are at risk.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. - This is a GREAT idea. When VR is legitimized for a situation like this it will become easier for all of us ground-lings to experience it, too. The sad thing is that we've probably had the tech to make VR something immersive for years!! I remember as a kid trying out VR at Disney World and it was crude as hell but that was in 1995. Dammit! Second Life has been around for a few years now and from what I can see it's world is beautifully rendered and all that's missing is the novel combination of Human interfaces to make it immersive like the space around you.
