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Show HN: NASA Mars 2021 as full-scale VR puzzles

6 pointsby juliendorraabout 4 years ago
We built a VR game with giant 3D puzzles[0], and to celebrate the successful landing of NASA Perseverance rover on Mars, we just added an experimental mini-series of Mars 2021 puzzles:<p>- Perseverance rover at 1&#x2F;3rd of the size<p>- Perseverance at full-scale. At full scale in VR, it&#x27;s impressive! Bigger than I thought!<p>Screenshots for Perseverance VR puzzles: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;PecoPecoGame&#x2F;status&#x2F;1362880879966748679<p>- Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter, at full scale. Again, full-scale in VR is a cool way to get a sense of the size of Ingenuity (spoiler: the body is smaller than what I expected, but the blades are huge comparatively! That&#x27;s because the martian atmosphere is much less dense than the earth atmosphere.)<p>Screenshots for Ingenuity VR puzzle: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;PecoPecoGame&#x2F;status&#x2F;1365704324232454147<p>These are directly based on the official NASA models, so they have great accuracy.<p>There&#x27;s one puzzle to play for each model, and you can cut your own puzzles in VR if you want.<p>The full-scale Perseverance puzzle has huge pieces! The wheels are enormous. It is also doubly experimental as you will need a really room-scale guardian to play. (or use vertical space!)<p>And the 1&#x2F;3 scale Perseverance model is really nice to discover it from any angle.<p>The 54-piece puzzle that goes with the Ingenuity model is part easy, part quite hard! But I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ll do it if you like puzzles<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pecopecogame.com

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