NASA and Microsoft are teaming up to develop Sidekick, a new project using commercial technology to empower astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Sidekick uses Microsoft HoloLens to ...

“When they slip on their headsets, they’re not just seeing the station—they’re in it,” according to a NASA blog post. While most of us spend our time in the metaverse trading assets or bopping around ...

Most of the winning scenarios enabled players to be scored like in a video game based on their crew’s effectiveness in completing each challenge. NASA has revealed the winners of the second MarsXR ...

Last year, we reported on the unique NASA MarsXR Challenge, a crowd-sourced competition designed to create a virtual/hybrid-reality that can approximate Mars exploration. The effort was a cooperative ...

The new NASA Mars challenge wants space fans to help them create a virtual reality environment of the Red Planet. In this handout image provided by Walt Disney World Resort, a simulated Mars Rover ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen will test a specially configured HTC Vive for up to eight months with the NASA ...

Inside the unique laboratory of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in space operations by combining robotics and virtual reality (VR).

NASA’s been using virtual reality to develop training for astronauts for 20 years. Here’s what the industry can learn from them. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies ...