“Lunar Roving Adventure: Stepping into Historic Apollo Missions in Virtual Reality” by Yuan, Peng, Zhang and Cao
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- Lunar Roving Adventure: Stepping into Historic Apollo Missions in Virtual Reality
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While Moon landing missions continue to fascinate the public, younger generations may be less familiar with the Apollo program, which took place over 50 years ago. Traditional video and reading materials may feel less engaging, as they are not integrated into modern digital platforms that appeal to today’s audiences. We present “Lunar Roving Adventure”, a virtual reality game that represents the historical Apollo lunar exploration missions performed by NASA astronauts during the late 1960s and early 1970s. This game’s design concepts, interactions, and game arts are relevant to historic events and factual activities. We aimed to resonate with our desire for exploration by providing a historical and educational game experience.
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[1] Lizhou Cao, Yangzi Dong, and Chao Peng. 2020. Lunar Roving Adventure: A serious VR game of lunar exploration missions. Frameless 2, 1 (2020), 15.
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[3] Kipp Teague. [n.d.]. The Project Apollo Image Gallery. http://apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html. Image Credit: NASA. Accessed: 2022-01-06.
[4] Huadong Zhang, Lizhou Cao, Gel Howell, and Chao Peng. 2022. VR edufication on historic lunar roving missions. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE, 612–613.
[5] Huadong Zhang, Lizhou Cao, Gel Howell, David Schwartz, and Chao Peng. 2023. An educational virtual reality game for learning historical events. Virtual Reality 27, 4 (2023), 2895–2909.
