Sunday, March 27, 2011

Virtual Star Map

There's a new app for the iPhone that takes virtual reality into consideration. The application judges where you are directing the iPhone screen towards the sky and the application shows you real-time what constellations, stars, and satellites you're looking at. The app is called Star Walk and is considered very time-sensitive and beautiful, letting you zoom in and out of points of interest. The application is recommended for students and is also available for the iPad, which I'd personally be excited to see. I think this is a cool way to use virtual reality with technology, and is great educational tool too.
Read more up on it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-5-stars-astronomy/id295430577?mt=8#
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  1. Megan FarnesApril 2, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    As a student looking into Astronomy I find this very interesting. I love the stars and have never really gotten into them much but would love to have an application that could tell me what stars I am looking out and when. This would be a great learning tool for me

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