HTC just sent up some Vive Focus 3 headsets to the International Space Station. It’s part of an effort to improve the mental health of astronauts who are on long-term assignments.
Whether it's for a tour of the International Space Station or a battle with Darth Vader, most VR enthusiasts are looking to get off this planet and into the great beyond. HTC, however, is sending VR headsets to the ISS to give lonely astronauts something to do besides staring into the star-riddled abyss.to the ISS as part of an ongoing effort to improve the mental health of astronauts in the midst of long assignments on the station.
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be the first ISS crew member to use the VR headset for preventative mental health care during his six-month missionThis leads to the question of internet connectivity. After all, Mogensen and his fellow astronauts would likely want to connect with family and friends while wearing their brand-new VR headsets.So we’d actually be the bottleneck in this scenario, and not the astronauts.
These souped-up Vive Focus 3 headsets are heading up to the space station shortly, though there’s no arrival date yet. It’s worth noting that it took some massive feats of engineering to even get these headsets to work in microgravity, as so many aspects of a VR headset depend on normal Earth gravity.
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