EUROPE: While SpaceVR has been designing, prototyping and building the Overview One, it couldn’t get the camera to the ISS alone.
If you have always wanted to know, firsthand, what the Earth looks like from space, you might want to know that there is a new Kickstarter campaign that wants to send a 3D, 360-degree camera to the global Space Station.
“Only 536 people have ever been to space”, SpaceVR’s Kickstarter page reads. If successful, its first mission will be affixing itself to the Cupola viewing module underneath the worldwide Space Station – a part that would allow SpaceVR’s camera to capture all of the Earth at once.
Like other companies getting into VR content, the hope is that the immersion of virtual reality will offer customers something that looking at still pictures or browsing Google Earth can not. This camera would collect footage that people can then view in virtual reality devices such as the Samsung GearVR. “Astronauts refer to this as the Overview Effect”, SpaceVR stated on its Kickstarter page. Rarely is that more true than in space, as several astronauts have tried to explain.
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