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Offline Drewid

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Oculous Rift: Apollo 11
« on: April 13, 2016, 05:50:37 AM »
For those that have access, the Oculous Rift has an Apollo 11 VR experience. Basically a museum experience with a few interactive bits thrown in.


Here's Charlie Duke having a go.


I believe in the latest version you participate in the landing.  I'm pushing to get it in at work. :)
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Offline LunarOrbit

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Re: Oculous Rift: Apollo 11
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2016, 08:48:06 PM »
I wish my PC was up to handling Oculus. I'm thinking about getting the PlayStation VR in the fall, and I think the Apollo experience is going to be available for that as well.

I have a Samsung Gear VR headset, but it's really only good for simple games and 360 videos. I was hoping someone had stitched together some Apollo photos into a 360 panorama, but I haven't found anything.
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Re: Oculous Rift: Apollo 11
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2016, 04:46:06 PM »
A nice look at this here :

In non-VR mode.
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Re: Oculous Rift: Apollo 11
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2016, 11:09:38 AM »
Many videos of this kind, especially the charlie duke one, are full of mistakes, which could have been easily avoided by just knowing it better (not a question of money).

- visibility through the side windows already on the launch pad...which were in fact covered by the BPC of the LES.
- wrong roll-attitude, which was in fact over-the-head to get positive g-forces.
- wrong scale of the earth in LEO, looks like many thousands of kilometers distance.

...to be continued. Charlie Duke stays polite and mumbles something about "some technical issues", but it is really a shame what they offer him :-[

Those guys are amazed by their new technology (me too), but they don´t care much about historical facts.
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Re: Oculous Rift: Apollo 11
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2016, 12:17:45 PM »
Quote from: Trebor on May 16, 2016, 04:46:06 PM
A nice look at this here :

In non-VR mode.
That is a neat video. :)
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Re: Oculous Rift: Apollo 11
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2016, 06:05:33 PM »
Quote from: bknight on May 23, 2016, 12:17:45 PM
Quote from: Trebor on May 16, 2016, 04:46:06 PM
A nice look at this here :

In non-VR mode.
That is a neat video. :)

Sorry, I can´t get over it. "12 miles high" and it looks already higher than from the ISS.
The windows should be covered until mode 1 charlie.
The AGC shows strange numbers I don´t recall and I doubt they are anything else than fantasy.
And finally "picking up some dust" looks like real dust on earth.

Beside the VR-graphics the whole thing was already more accurate 10 years ago, in Orbiter Space Flight Simulator.
Just sayin. If you enjoy it, I don´t critizise. To see it in a positive way there is some potential for improvement.

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