Virtual trip to planet Mars with NASA tour and Oculus Rift glasses

NASA and virtual reality glasses companies Oculus Rift and Virtuix Omni have developed 'Immersive Space Exploration', a system that allows you to travel and travel virtually in 360 degrees the planet Mars without moving from the spot.

The jet propulsion laboratory of the NASA, based in Pasadena, Californa, has developed the 'Immersive Space Exploration' program (immersive space exploration) to virtually tour the known as the 'red planet', thanks to satellite images taken by the Curiosity robot from Mars, displayed through the virtual reality lenses of Oculus Rift.

This development allows users to see and explore the planet in this virtual environment in a panoramic view. 360 degrees just by turning your head, in addition to seeing the interior of the International Space Station with simulation and sensation of zero gravity.

Immersive Space Exploration' works with two different movement formats: through the firm's virtual reality equipment Virtuix Omni, that simulates the movement of users walking on Mars, and through a console control Microsoft Xbox.

This space tour follows the layout made by the Mars rover to create a three-dimensional environment for the user., that can perform this immersive exploration in space with stereoscopic vision thanks to the Oculus Rift lenses and the Virtuix Omni software platform. The sensors of these devices allow actions to be simulated in real time so that the user's vision is the same as that captured by the robot and it seems that he is walking on the desert 'red planet', observe its reliefs and shapes,…

The images provided in the last year by the Curiosity robot (1.300 million pixels, with three different cameras), of which some nine hundred photographs have been used and combined into a complex mosaic, They allow you to have an impressive view of this desert planet down to the last detail and give the sensation of walking on Mars..

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