AR/WebXR for Public Engagement – PsycheVerse

INSTITUTION

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

CLASS

Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Rodrigo Spinola

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

We created three interactive AR/webXR/VR experiences: Mission To Psyche, Psyche Trivial Wheel, and Psyche Space Hunt. Mission to Psyche puts you inside the spacecraft and shows you facts about the mission in an interactive way. The user is able to learn key facts about the mission, asteroid, and the spacecraft, along with being able to explore the spacecraft. This experience also includes a VR portion which allows the user to move around the spacecraft and view different models related to Psyche. The Psyche Trivial Wheel is a fun quiz game where users study mission facts, then test their knowledge by spinning a wheel to answer trivia questions. Correct answers earn points, with a confetti celebration for a perfect score. The Psyche Space Hunt is a XR game where the user finds different instruments related to the Psyche mission and collects them to learn more about each instrument’s purpose in the mission. The user is able to click objects, read about them, and view a photo of the object by moving their phone to look around and find the objects.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Virginia Commonwealth University Capstone Course “CMSC 441″/”CMSC 451”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.