Unveiling in New York next week if you can attend the event in person (at Sotheby’s New York in the posh Upper East Side, of all places to put so many headset-wearing geeks):
In collaboration with NASA and Linden Lab, LOOT Interactive will debut their next VR project during The Art Of VR event at Sotheby’s. Visitors to the NASA Apollo Museum can explore, in high-detail, one of mankind’s defining moments, the Apollo 11 mission, in which NASA landed the first human beings on Earth’s Moon. Explore true-to-scale models of the Saturn V rocket, Command Module and the Lunar Module, track the entire mission from launch to re-entry via a Museum-size mission map, and teleport to a recreation of the Apollo 11 moon landing site! Built with Sansar, Linden Lab’s new social VR platform, The Apollo Museum Experience is a richly immersive and engaging virtual experience to be explore and enjoy with other people. The museum showcases the full creative potential of social VR for the next generation of museums, storytelling, and educational experiences. The Apollo 11 Museum Experience will launch, alongside with Sansar for PC, Oculus Rift, and HTC VIVE users later this year.
Linden Lab promises me pictures of the experience soon, so stand by for that. If you're surprised that NASA is working with the company, don't be: NASA also used to do regular events in Second Life, and even once owned an SL sim still talked about on NASA's website.
If you do check it out, New York-based readers, please share your experiences here!
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