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NASA Creates A Virtual Mars You Can Explore With The Oculus Rift
2NASA’s JPL is using satellite imagery of Mars, combined with the Oculus Rift headset and the Virtuix Omni to create a simulation, where people can feel like they’re actually walking on the Mars terrain. One of the engineers explained in an interview to Engadget, that initially explorers would use an Xbox controller to wander the…
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Liberty City Is One Million Times Larger Than A PS3, And Other Great Mysteries Of The Universe
NASA scientist Rich Terrile has a neat way of explaining stuff that you or I should, by all rights, not be able to understand at all: he uses Grand Theft Auto IV as a means of explaining how we might all be living our lives in a giant galactic simulation.
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NASA’s Mohawked Internet Sensation Could Totally Be The Face Of Mass Effect
If you were watching the landing of rover Curiosity on Mars yesterday through the available livestreams, your eyes may have been drawn to NASA’s mysteriously mohawked mission control staffer.
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NASA Is Putting Portal 2’s Wheatley In Space. (Really)
That panel is a part of some sort, to be flown on a resupply craft to the International Space Station this coming Friday. “An anonymous tech at NASA,” is responsible for laser-engraving Wheatley, the antagonist of Portal 2 on the part, Valve said in its official Portal blog on Friday. “And please note that when…