SpaceVR Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Send 360-Degree Camera to ISS

360-degree camera (Credit: SpaceVR)

SpaceVR has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $500,000 to send a 360-degree camera to the International Space Stati0on to collect footage so that anyone with a virtual reality headset can tour the facility without leaving the ground.

Being in space and looking down at the Earth, astronauts are hit with an astounding reality: our planet is a tiny, fragile ball of life, “hanging in the void”, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. Astronauts refer to this as the Overview Effect. The idea of national boundaries vanishes, the conflicts that divide people become irrelevant, and the need to come together as a civilization to protect this “pale blue dot” becomes both obvious and imperative.

Only 536 people have ever been to space; at SpaceVR we ask, what about the other 7 billion? Our vision is to bring the Overview Effect to everyone by allowing people to truly experience space and to explore our universe through the magic of virtual reality.

Suppport SpaceVR’s Kickstarter campaign here.