Apollo 11 VR Experience

[EliasDanger]

 

This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for when I preordered the Vive. Can. Not. Wait.

[purpleivan]

I just tried it out today at work and it's pretty good, a little slow in places, especially for anyone that's a familiar with the mission, but a good experience.

I had a couple of attempts at landing the LEM without success.

The first time I didn't realise that it was me who was in control of the vehicle and so just sat there waiting for the landing to complete, with the inevitable result.

On my second attempt, I was doing well and got the LEM very close the the landing site (probably less than 30s from touchdown), only to accidentally hit the menu button on the VIve controller and once I'd got back into the simulation, found that my slow roll and descent I'd been in had continued while in the menu, so I was then almost upside down, just above the surface, again with the inevitable result.

Had to stop at that point to go and do some work

One amusing thing was to stick my head out of the capsule/LEM for a view not intended by the developer