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89th

@89th said in New Glenn:

for the VR goggles

Deets?

Got the MetaQuest 3S goggles for Christmas. Very impressive technology, better than I expected, although it can make you dizzy. There are two modes, hybrid where you see the room around you AND virtual screens in front of you, and fully immersive where you are 100% "in" a world (flying through canyons, exploring the ISS, playing mini golf, etc...) and you set a boundary in your room so it won't let you walk into a wall.

Aside from the fun, if I was immobile or alone, it is an AMAZING way to "get out". You can virtually watch a (real!) movie sitting next to someone wearing VR goggles even if they are 10,000 miles away, or you can hike real trails (like the grand canyon) as people have "filmed" 360-degree 4K footage while hiking, that you can explore from that POV.

taiwan_girl

@Copper Sounds cool. Let's know how you like it!

@89th That sounds cool also. I think a market for the goggles will also be live concerts and sporting events where you can purchase a ticket to "be there" but not really there.

89th

@taiwan_girl said in New Glenn:

@Copper Sounds cool. Let's know how you like it!

@89th That sounds cool also. I think a market for the goggles will also be live concerts and sporting events where you can purchase a ticket to "be there" but not really there.

Totally. There is an app where you can be courtside for NBA games but I don’t care about basketball at all but the execution is amazing. It’s nearly the same thing as the $20k seat cost in person.

89th

You may have seen the New Glenn 2 landed its first stage on a barge (heavy rocket, bigger than the falcon 9 that we normally see land on a barge).

I really like the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel. Great launch coverage and other content that total Astro-n00b dudes like myself enjoy.

Here’s a clip of a New Glenn factory tour (dare I say Jeff Bezos is actually…nerdy yet personable???) from a year ago, and then coverage of the launch/landing.

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89th

I’m only about 20 minutes into that first video with Jeff Bezos, it is actually remarkable his knowledge of all the details.

89th

For context of how big the rocket is that they landed. If you watch the first video, I posted above as Jeff Bezos explains everything, it is really, really, really fascinating. At least if you’re into space flight stuff.

89th

Here’s the 2nd part of that first video. The launch pad. It is really mind blowing, the size and scale. Even the propellant tubes that are along the midsection, have to be able to be flexible based on the pressure… imagine telling an engineer that they need to design proponent tubes for 300 feet, but also maybe 320 feet. Just insane. All of it!

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89th

Welp, it blew up during a test fire today. Massive explosion. Hard to fathom how many people worked hard on that, now they have to rebuild the launch pad too, this probably will push Artemis III back a bit, too.

89th

Happens exactly at the 9:00:00 mark (time at the top). A good reminder of why tests are important.

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jon-nyc

89th

Dare I say a beautiful mushroom cloud? If you haven't been there on a tour, imagine the scaffolding of the Statue of Liberty, except blown up now. There are a number of launch complexes, but this one (36) is one of the bigger ones and has been used IIRC by New Glenn for their massive rocket launches (only beat by Starship and Artemis).

jon-nyc

Yes you may say mushroom cloud.

89th

Not that I care, but that video I posted earlier of the tour of their launch pad... I really enjoyed watching it and learning all about it, and MAN that puts the destruction in context about what was lost.

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