October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... this to help with surgical planning and teaching. Additional tools, such as UbiSim, have been developed using virtual reality for nursing education, with adjustable parameters to maximise its capability for training. Further, AR can be used to help...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...-flight and in-orbit sessions. For example, figure 2 shows ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in training at the 3D virtual reality laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas: he is using a VR headset to learn how to operate his spacesuit...
October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
Spaceport America boasts some impressive credentials, not least the fact that it was the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world. The FAA-licensed launch complex, situated on 18,000 acres adjacent to the US Army White Sands Missile ...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... to direct experience of the overview effect is financial and we see many groups attempting to offer a simulated experience of it with virtual reality and other technologies. While we should not over-regulate human migration into the solar system and...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
..., remote sensing (Earth observation and meteorology), navigation and the next generation of entertainment technologies like virtual reality (VR). Industries such as agriculture, oil and gas and shipping are increasingly using satellite imagery...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... in repairs without Earth team support. XR is an umbrella term for all the immersive technologies AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) plus those that are still to be created. XR is rapidly making its way into industries, including...
