Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Teaser to show off the ways you can fly in #ingenuityinvr based on the actual camera parameters for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover & #ingenuityhelicopter.
Technical Notes:
Both inset videos show what the VR view will look like based upon the actual camera specification for #Ingenuity 's RTE horizon facing color camera and #Perseverance 's Mastcam-Z camera, including a working zoom. Both cameras will, like their real world counterparts, will have limited motion, all dependent on how you manipulate the joysticks on your VR hand controllers. Their will also be a "spectator mode" (main video) that will allow you free motion behind the rover with limited "physical motion" roaming space to view the actual flights of Ingenuity, which has not completed its first historic launch, which I am happy to say I witness in real-time very early Monday morning when the data started coming back.
For those of you who are anxious to get your hands of "Ingenuity in VR," we are sorry we missed our 4/15/2021 (SOL 65) date, but we have decided to take more time to meticulously painting and adding rocks around the crafts, as well as mesh refinements to the surround crater ridge and delta cliffs. Thankfully NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and its team at Arizona State University under Jim Bell's leadership have done a magnificent job of providing detailed images from the Mastcam-Z and NavCam to make this task more accurate. We are also hoping to see how close we are in recreating the Ingenuity RTE camera view in these preliminary teaser videos, but will make any necessary adjustments to make the user feel that are "one" with Ingenuity.
#marshellicopter
Teaser to show off the ways you can fly in #ingenuityinvr based on the actual camera parameters for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover & #ingenuityhelicopter.
Technical Notes:
Both inset videos show what the VR view will look like based upon the actual camera specification for #Ingenuity 's RTE horizon facing color camera and #Perseverance 's Mastcam-Z camera, including a working zoom. Both cameras will, like their real world counterparts, will have limited motion, all dependent on how you manipulate the joysticks on your VR hand controllers. Their will also be a "spectator mode" (main video) that will allow you free motion behind the rover with limited "physical motion" roaming space to view the actual flights of Ingenuity, which has not completed its first historic launch, which I am happy to say I witness in real-time very early Monday morning when the data started coming back.
For those of you who are anxious to get your hands of "Ingenuity in VR," we are sorry we missed our 4/15/2021 (SOL 65) date, but we have decided to take more time to meticulously painting and adding rocks around the crafts, as well as mesh refinements to the surround crater ridge and delta cliffs. Thankfully NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and its team at Arizona State University under Jim Bell's leadership have done a magnificent job of providing detailed images from the Mastcam-Z and NavCam to make this task more accurate. We are also hoping to see how close we are in recreating the Ingenuity RTE camera view in these preliminary teaser videos, but will make any necessary adjustments to make the user feel that are "one" with Ingenuity.
#marshellicopter
