VR Psyche Inspired Art and Artist Showcase – Cosmic Coders

INSTITUTION

University of Wisconsin – Platteville (UWP)

CLASS

Platinum Class (2025 – 2026)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The goal of the project is to create a Virtual Reality (VR) experience to showcase artwork of the Psyche Mission to the public in a virtual museum, so that people who can’t attend the exhibit in person can appreciate the art in a similar environment. All the artwork in the gallery is from students around the nation who made Psyche pieces for their capstone projects. Demos are available from the Web VR gallery. The Web VR gallery places you directly within the exhibition space, letting you move around and examine details up close through Meta Quest 3 headsets. The gallery can also be accessed on a computer without the need for VR so that anyone can experience it whether they have access to VR or not.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the University of Wisconsin – Platteville Capstone Course “COMP 4330/4730.” 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.