Samsung collaborates with NASA to create a VR lunar experience

Final updated: July 24th, 2018 at 23:24 UTC+01:00

Samsung has launched a 4D lunar gravity VR feel 'A Moon for All Flesh' (AMFAM) at the Samsung 837 in New York. It'southward a visual and concrete VR experience for consumers that uses the Milky way S9+ and the Gear VR to recreate a fictional moon mission to experience lunar gravity.

Samsung collaborated with the NASA's team behind the Active Response Gravity Offload Organisation (ARGOS), a system used to train astronauts, to make the AMFAM feel realistic by mimicking the partial gravity experience of walking on the moon.

The AMFAM VR experience will be a full space mission which includes a conference about the mission and stepping into a flying suit with a Gear VR headset to experience the brand-believe lunar mission in the gravity offload rig. At the cease of every AMFAM session, consumers volition hopefully get a taste of what information technology feels like to walk on the moon.

Open to the public starting today

The immersive VR experience will exist open to the public at the Samsung 837 in New York starting today and will be accessible until the terminate of July side by side year. Consumers tin become to world wide web.837gearVR.com for scheduling missions and other additional information.

"At Samsung, nosotros are driven to push button the boundaries of innovation and inspire consumers to do what they can't. We are proud to bring to consumers the combination of our powerful mobile VR headset and our innovative piece of work with NASA to launch this lunar experience and bring the sensation of walking on the Moon to life," said Zach Overton, VP of Consumer Experience & General Director of Samsung 837 and Galaxy Studios.