The obvious promise of virtual reality is its ability to take you places you’d never actually be able to go. The International Space Station is a pretty great candidate for that, so it’s fitting that Oculus teamed up with NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency to create a VR game based on an astronaut’s life aboard the ISS. The best part, of course, is that the game is absolutely free.
The game, called Mission:ISS, is designed to be used with the Oculus Rift’s Touch motion controllers, and you use both the VR headset and a pair of disembodied glowing hands to interact with the spacecraft and the objects within. As Oculus describes the experience on its store page,Mission:ISS features a number of “mission-critical tasks” to dutifully carry out in your role as a well-trained and totally not amateur space traveler. Those include things like walking around the outside of the space station and managing crates of cargo.
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Source: BGR