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Explore the most detailed map of the universe – EPFL Longread (epfl.ch)
75 points by rbanffy on Oct 15, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Maybe later there'll be a browser version which you can use with a regular display and mouse?


This looks amazing but I can't seem to find any information about whether it's compatible with standard VR headsets (Oculus / Vive / etc)


Here is a link for an earlier VR viewer for Gaia EDR2 (there is supposed to be same for EDR3 but I didn't see it yet)

https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/60036-gaia-data-release-2-vir...

Edit: here is EDR3 https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/download...


There's a screenshot that shows it being routed through SteamVR, so I'm presuming that it's fairly hardware-agnostic.


Not really a 1 megabyte club member website I take it...


It is in English (which is good as advertised) yet there is some rant about cookies in French at webapp startup.




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