Awards & Nominations
The Myths Brazil has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History
Virtual Rover Experience
Summary
Virtual Rover Experience is an interactive way to inform and instruct that get users immersed by playing the role of a pilot in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. To share NASA’s ongoing STEM investments and researches on Earth, we developed this entertaining experience on NASA’s efforts to offer educational motivation to students from all over de world. By wearing VR glasses one can interact with a 360º video and make decisions to help us get to the finish line. You can speed up the rover or slow it down and even choose whether to face an obstacle or not before it comes up. Virtual Rover Experience can be used for educational purposes for all ages or even as social media material
How We Addressed This Challenge
Our product is an interactive way to inform and educate people worldwide about NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (NHERC). As an NHERC participant team, we recognize the contribution and the legacy that events like this can provide to our society, enhancing our knowledge and providing a collaborative environment to share ideas, let out creativity flourish, motivate the development of new technologies, and, last but not least, inspire our future generation scientists.
Virtual Rover Experience will take the user to an engaging and immersive environment by providing an opportunity to feel part of our team, playing the role of the rover pilot. By wearing VR glasses one can interact with a 360º video and make decisions to help us get to the finish line. You can speed up the rover or slow it down, choose whether to face an obstacle or not before it comes up, and even answer questions referring to real tasks in the competition.
In this way, we hope to spread NASA’s ongoing work on Earth by promoting this entertaining experience, which can be used for educational purposes suitable for all ages or even as social media material. We hope to inspire.
How We Developed This Project
The Myths Brazil is a team that exists appart from NASA Space Apps, and one of our main values is to spread knowledge and information to our community. “Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History” matches our goals by demanding a way to share information about NASA STEM projects and address a virtual way to achieve an educational purpose. We tackled the challenge with a youth perspective, as we gave NASA’s competition 360º YouTube videos an interactive approach, using Adobe Captivate. Our first challenge was to define the project’s scope and later how to handle the Adobe software, which was never before used by our team. The main achievement was to find a connection between NASA Space Apps and NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, which we attend since 2018 and have significant knowledge of. We were also able to straighten our relationship as a team, crucial to the project’s development.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Our reference material was mainly composed of 360º YouTube videos provided by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center’s YouTube channel, related to the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge competition in 2017. Besides, we also handled NASA’s Rover Challenge materials, such as Guidebooks and others, to offer our users an overview of NASA’s ongoing STEM investments and researches on Earth.
Project Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZiTYJ-0lao&feature=youtu.be
Data & Resources
- Rover challenge video of the NHERC competition in 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnb3fNM0hhg
- 360 Video 2016 Human Exploration Rover Challenge video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEUsvEULsVg&t=360s
- NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge website:
https://www.nasa.gov/stem/roverchallenge/home/index.html
Nasa image:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/images/yscphoto07.html