Virtusphere Rolls into the Future
It looks like a giant hamster ball but it’s doing far more than exercising its occupants. The Virtusphere, which first rolled onto the scene during the reality television show Shark Tank in 2009, takes virtual reality to a whole new level.
For science, it gives the opportunity to walk through the bloodstream or to soar through the cosmos and understand spaces in a whole new way. Data that scientists have collected can finally be put to use in a meaningful way that gives depth and dimension to some hard to imagine worlds.
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is only one of four institutions that has one of these giant balls of science. The Virtusphere was also a part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington D.C. last fall.
It has applications from training military personnel in a virtual environment and it can even be used to enhance video games. But get inside this ball and scientists can finally walk into the worlds they study, which will allow us all to better understand what’s going on all around us.
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