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Oculus Rift – Skyrim
More vicarious thrills as Cymatic Bruce tries out the Oculus Rift with Skyrim. He’s been super-busy this week testing various titles, but this is my favourite report. Love the running commentary. Keep...
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Celebrating Cosmonautics Day!
Yes, yes… a bit belated I know (Cosmonautics Day is April 12), but I only just came across this great pic from Subatomic Tourism. Nice to see that his re-entry vehicle has a blunt body!
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Oculus Rift first impressions (doc-ok.org)
A top quality Oculus Rift first impressions review here by Oliver Kreylos, a very smart and experienced VR/3D developer. It is interesting to note how highly he rates the Rift lenses. I have been...
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Essential reading for Oculus Rift developers
Michael Abrash and John Carmack are both 3D graphics living legends. Both massively experienced and super-bright. When they say that VR has very difficult challenges, you’d better believe them! From...
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Vintage NASA Project Mercury documentaries
They don’t make documentaries like these any more. Men in silver spacesuits. Scientists in white labcoats. Giant rockets. Pointing engineers. IMPORTANT FACTS IN BOLD CAPITALS. Bizarre soundtracks....
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SpaceX Grasshopper tests
Impressive videos of SpaceX’s Grasshopper vertical takeoff/landing rocket. Nice touches having a cowboy going along for the ride and a Johnny Cash soundtrack. I do hope they are working on a...
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Basics of Spaceflight
Does this kind of thing get you excited? Launch Phase Upon completion of this chapter you will be able to describe the role launch sites play in total launch energy, state the characteristics of...
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Vostok 1
A nice Russian Vostok 1 documentary. Fancy being a Cosmonaut? Check out the centrifuge and ejection testing from 1:00. When did computer operators stop wearing labcoats? Rotate spacecraft to align...
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Displaying orbits and trajectories
A rather stylish online Solar System Orrery. It is written in Flash I’m afraid, so if you are on iOS you’ll just have to look at the screenshot and imagine the moving planets. Perhaps I will write an...
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Whack-A-Potato
Whack-a-mole, with potatoes… This is what happens if you buy a MaKey MaKey interface board for your kids, find a lack of suitable games, and want an excuse to hack something together with the Loom game...
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Space Death
My latest project, currently in development. A game of starship design and the many ways to accidentally kill your crew. See the Space Death website for all the latest updates. Some sneak preview...
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Space Death website is live!
Check it out… www.spacedeathgame.com You can also follow the devblog here
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