Unreal vision| The Trans-Neptunian Spaceway

Project Details

The Challenge | The Trans-Neptunian Spaceway

Like the Trans-Siberian Railroad linked remote parts of Asia to the West, the Trans-Neptunian Spaceway (TNS) takes tourists and entrepreneurs to the newly accessible region of our solar system beyond Neptune. Your challenge is to develop marketing materials and/or tools for the Trans-Neptunian Spaceway!

Unreal Vision

Developing a wider approach to human-machine interactions (HMI), putting special focus into the upcoming spacial journeys.

Unreal vision

Developers:

Marcos Urios: https://marcosurios.com

Nestor Sabater: https://nsabater.com

Elaine Zhang



PROJECT DESCRIPTION

“Developing a wider approach to human-machine interactions (HMI), putting special focus into the upcoming spacial journeys.”


OBJECTIVE

Improvement controlling information and systems, simplifying interactions.


TARGET AUDIENCE

Target user: any space visitor.

Clients: brands specialized in space Human-Machine Interactions and not specialized in space. Also NASA can take part of our services.


HOW TO

Mixing a set of technologies like Leap Motion for motion tracking, Project North Star / Windows Hololens, Real time rendering engines, GPS, AI and a set of infrared sensors we can achieve very acurate mixed reality environment for improving the workflow of astronauts in the outer space, as wel as making peoples life improve to the next level.


POSSIBILITIES

- Handsfree devices control: it's right now possible to control handsfree a system.

- Display valuable information (holographic): it's real and possible the possibility

- Spacial orientation helper

- Remote systems control

- Open to new technologies



DEVELOPMENT

Of course this is just a preview developed in ~32h so It’s far from complete. More tests, UI improvements and technology mixes are required to go.

Testing all the technologies together is the next step to get this project to a future end, unfortunately we had no access to Project North Star devices by the time of this contest.


TECHNOLOGY in detail

Main realtime renderer

There are many solutions for this, the more integrated ones with the next technologies are Unreal Engine and Unity5

Motion tracking: Leap Motion

Used for realtime hand motion tracking, allows us not only to track movement acurately but also to find directions and gestures.

Resultado de imagen de leap motion


Augmented reality: Project North Star

This setup facilitates the integration into astronauts helmet to display images directly into the helmet glass interior.

The North Star headset is published under the GPL license.

You can also access the project onGitHub.


REFERENCES

NASA 3d models

Unreal Engine free models

Astronaut animations: Adobe Mixamo