Tim Peake & Tim Kopra : NASA & ISS EVRA 1 : spacewalk via Oculus Rift & Virtual Desktop
2This is the best Oculus Rift VR experience I have had in 3 years of messing with the things, wait till the head cam sections kick in and in part II https://youtu.be/jXZ5Z8Tzeek and III https://youtu.be/YSoPPVUNWYA where the very real drama hits...I have to go to space now ... and without leaving my chair.. what to do ? Well here is the first part of Tim & Tim's EVA viewed thru the wonder of Virtual Desktop on Oculus Rift... the arrival of HMDs like the Rift means we are able to consume media like this official NASA tv stream ( don't sue me please NASA I am just demoing a usage scenario and living a childhood dream ) in ways that can put us into the suits of our heroes Tim Peak and Tim Kopra. For NASA , viewing video this way should be a part of training, you could also look for events and details you never picked up in a static pov video, for instance I picked up Yoda, Gizmo and Johnny 5 aiding Mission Control...If I were NASA I would install 360 and 3D cameras to the suits and station , the resultant VR video gleaned from this would be far more data rich and useful to astronauts, Cosmonauts train virtual cosmonauts/astronauts to pilot astrodrones/droids and cosmonauts like myself . Oh and how brave are Tim Peak and Tim Kopra. But how far are we off controlling drones or humanoid drones to take the danger/risk away ? Part II and III follow ,
Apologies to NASA and Ustream in advance! And Palmer see you in the game ? Nah see you in space kid...