![]() ![]() It was interesting to watch things like the Hubble Space Telescope in its proper real time position slowly gliding over the earth far below. With 3D glasses on, the planets and artificial satellites come alive. My favorite 3D view was of Saturn and its moons. Solar Walk includes very detailed graphics and information about our solar system, and this new version adds some movies (in 2D) on tides, circles of latitude, and the zodiacal constellations. You can also see the 3D images just fine on the iPad. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. On you 3D TV screen there will appear two pictures on a screen. There will appear a question what type of 3D you want to use anaglyph glasses or 3D TV. Switch on 3D function in Solar Walk Menu.ģ. Connect your iPad with an HDMI adapter to the 3d TVĢ. Here's how to do it if you have a 3D TV.:ġ. ![]() Note: A late email from the developer says you can use the app with a 3D TV although it is not noted in the app help. They are cheap, and easily available from suppliers like Amazon. As near as I can tell, the app doesn't support the high end 3D method that uses shutter glasses or polarizing filters, but instead uses the tried and true red/blue anaglyphic glasses that became popular in the fifties. ![]() Solar Walk would be very nice for teachers, who could plug it into external monitors in the classroom. I reviewed the app in 2010 and found it to be very educational. The new version has support for 3D, so you get some rather stunning renditions of planets and satellites that are more realistic than what's available in a 2D presentation. They’re just cardboard and cellophane, and have gotten a bit crumpled, but they’re still a functional pair of 3D glasses I got from NASA, that time I watched a rocket launch a robot to soar amidst the planets.Want to tour the Solar System? Solar Walk is a just-updated universal iOS app that allows you to do just that. I still have the 3D glasses today, and use them to view NASA EYES, look at 3D anaglyphs from the Mars Rovers, and occasionally play Minecraft in 3D mode. In some ways the immersive experience of soaring through the solar system in 3D was almost as enthralling as the rocket launch itself later that day. I found out the next day: Doug Ellison of JPL demoed to us his space visualization software, Eyes on the Solar System, which had a red/blue anaglyph mode to see 3D models of stars, planets, and spacecraft. I wondered at the time what we’d need 3D glasses for - after all we’d be watching a rocket launch in real life. It was a cool Florida morning, with the sun rising through a patchy fog over the green marshes of the Space Center Nature Preserve, the famous cube of the Vehicle Assembly Building towering over it all, with a wisp of lenticular cloud hovering over its roof like some kind of misty yarmulke.Īt the accreditation office we received a NASA-branded bag of freebies, with a press kit, stickers, buttons, and a pair of red/blue 3D glasses with the JPL logo and Twitter mascot printed on them. On the first morning of the Juno event I had to stop at the NASA KSC Media Accreditation office to register. I volunteered the 3D glasses I’d gotten at the NASA Tweetup for Juno. Amy recently had an art project where she had to draw an object provided by a friend, with the story behind the object. ![]()
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