Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Mission in AR

Posted by jvh | Jun 21, 2019 | Aerospace, Augmented Reality, Experience of the Week, XR Trends | 0

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Mission in AR

As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is fast approaching, USA TODAY is providing users with the opportunity to watch live rocket launches in augmented reality (AR) leading up to July 19th with the 321 Launch app.

During a live launch, watch an AR rocket liftoff from any flat surface, as an animated hologram shows you what the actual rocket is doing in real-time. Telemetry data generates a predictive flight-path allowing you to follow the speed, acceleration, and altitude of an active launch live in AR, simply by pointing your phone towards the sky. Tap to live video coverage of the launch and follow live commentary as you watch from anywhere in the world.
321 Launch App Store listing

In addition to watching rocket launches in real-time, users can launch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and the Atlas V rocket (created from a joint venture between Lockeed Martin and Boeing). From July 16th onwards, 321 Launch will offer the same experiences as the Apollo 11 landing as if it were happening today.

USA TODAY’s commitments to bringing news coverage and features in AR has been impressive, such as with their breaking AR coverage of the Notre Dame fire back in April. With speedy AR development becoming more of a possibility, developers can provide timely and informational experiences for users to enjoy.

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Joseph Van Harken -- is an award-winning journalist, producer and showrunner who operates and innovates on the edge of the supply and demand of storytelling. From war zones to war rooms, Joseph is adept at creating, sharing and consuming stories of consequence across television, digital media, and eLearning publishing platforms. He started his career as a print reporter and photojournalist for The Mackinac Island Town Crier, a small weekly rag in a timeless Michigan tourist town. His affinity for moving pictures soon pulled him toward television and he moved to work at the ABC affiliate in El Paso, TX where he developed an online backend CMS and partnered with Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com to establish KVIA as one of the first news stations porting news content to the web. Joseph then moved to New York City during the Dot Com boom where he was a founding member of World Now, a local TV internet platform. From there he joined CNN.com and CNN as a one-man-band, multimedia political beat reporter. Joseph then broke off and became an independent, international multimedia reporter and producer and covering stories all over the globe from Afghanistan, Indonesia, India, Costa Rica, Okinawa, New Orleans and New York creating television and web content for National Geographic, Travel Channel, MTV News, History, A&E, SyFy, Animal Planet, Discovery Health, and Vogue Magazine. During a multi-year stint with MTV, he shot/produced for TRUE LIFE, DIARY, MADE, DP’d the pilot for 8th & OCEAN, developed, Co-EP'd and DP’d THE PAPER, created, developed, EP'd and DP’d MY LIFE AS LIZ season 1 & 2 and recently Co-EP’d the History Channel series DARK HORSE NATION produced by Warrior Poets. Realizing that storytelling is essentially a form of teaching, he launched th3rd coast Entertainment & Training to satiate the eLearning industry's dire need for quality, engaging content. Joseph holds a BA in Communications from the University of Michigan and an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he was named the Society of Professional Journalists Student of the Year and won the John M Patterson Documentary Television award.

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