Virtual Field Trip Interface |
The Virtual Field Trip is an immersive multimedia
application developed to support student and user exploration
of areas on Earth that have been identified as analog sites to
regions on Mars. Analog sites are those areas that share some
common traits with sites on Mars and have been identified based
on their significance and importance to NASA.
Within the application, users are taken from a
global view directly down to a surface view of a site. They are
then seamlessly placed into a 360 degree spherical virtual reality
surface panorama of that location. Next users navigate around the
site selecting various objects and scientists to learn more about
how and why this site was chosen, how it relates to Mars, and why
it is of interest. The environment consists of various linked 360
degree spherical stitched virtual reality environments, 3D based
layered environments, global fly downs, as well as compressed streaming
video files within each area of research.
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