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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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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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The Virtual Starship
Traditionally astronomers have represented their data as two-dimensional images, often as Hammer-Aitoff projections of Earth’s sky. This tradition has continued even into the age of Gaia, which has provided us with vast 3D data sets.
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Gamifying the Nearest Stars
A long time dream of mine has been to have access to a catalog of all the nearest stars and brown dwarfs, with all their properties: temperature, size, mass and exoplanets.
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MRI Scans of the Milky Way
The European Space Agency’s Gaia Mission has surveyed the 3D positions of almost 2 billion stars, creating a point cloud that looks more like a sand storm in the Sahara desert than a traditional star map.
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