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Virtual tourism
Imagine one weekend getting together with friends and family for a tour of Beijing. Instead of an expensive and time consuming jet trip, you gather at a local hall, walk through a portal together and are greeted by your tour guide, who walks you around the city to see several highlights including the Lama Temple and the Forbidden City.
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Virtual tourism
Imagine one weekend getting together with friends and family for a tour of Beijing. Instead of an expensive and time consuming jet trip, you gather at a local hall, walk through a portal together and are greeted by your tour guide, who walks you around the city to see several highlights including the Lama Temple and the Forbidden City.
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Science education
I’ve been engaged in public science education for most of my life. Even when in university I used to write articles for a student newspaper highlighting the research projects of pure mathematics professors called “Professays”.
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Flying through the nearby stars
Astronomer Richard Smart led a team a few years back to create the Gaia Catalog of Nearby Stars , a carefully analyzed star sample within 100 parsecs (325 light-years).
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Acrux board game
There are about 3-5 thousand new board games published every year. A board game designer would need to have a very special game to rise above the crowd.
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Where is the Gaia data?
The European Space Agency’s Gaia Mission has provided distance estimates, magnitude, colour and other data for almost 2 billion stars, making it possible to map out the local galaxy in detail for the first time.
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Building an audience in VR
I’ve just created a new version of my virtual starship: the Comfy Chair edition. This is a single person seated version of the starship that can be operated entirely using hand tracking.
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