spacefoundation / cosmic-cruise

Take a VR Google Cardboard tour of the solar system!

Cosmic Cruise

Take a Google Cardboard tour of the solar system! This project is created for PhoneGap, optimized to be built using Adobe PhoneGap Build.

##Now Available in the Apple App Store and Google Play

Look for "Cosmic Cruise" in your favorite app store. Contribute here to make it better. :D

Something look off? Ideas? Issues?

For best results, be sure to post a ticket to offer your thoughts and feedback.

Are you a developer? Your pull requests are highly welcome here. :D

Status

Phase 1 LIVE! Search for "Cosmic Cruise" in Apple App Store and Google Play.

Next major upgrade: Narration and accompanying screen visuals (will post recordings prior to app update for fact checking purposes). Special thanks to Space Foundation volunteer Ron Sparkman who is managing audio edits at this time.

Planet Textures

This project makes use of textures, normal maps and bump maps from planetpixelemporium (Venus, Moon, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune).

Earth Color Texture credit: NASA Earth Cloud Map credit: NASA Earth Bump Map credit: Tom Patterson, www.shadedrelief.com Earth Specular Map credit: Tom Patterson, www.shadedrelief.com

Mercury texture credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Jupiter texture credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, color balance was adjusted in a subjective attempt (as suggested by Bjorn Jonsson) to better match the visual appearance of Jupiter in a telescope.

Pluto texture courtesy of (Snowfall-The-Cat)[http://ultrus.deviantart.com/art/Pluto-Map-2015-Nov-10-546286799], made with NASA/JPL/New horizons data.

Skybox texture generated and altered from this image courtesy of ESO/S. Brunier.

Audio

Nocturnia by Psychadelik Pedestrian is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Based on a work at http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/albums/toulp5.html Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/licensing.php.

Narration by Travis Schenck and Ron Sparkman. (coming in the next major app update)

System voice by Amy Mirocha.

Three.js

This project is powered by Three.js.

Special Thanks

This app is co-sponsored by the Space Foundation.

In addition to personal time spent on this project, extra special thanks goes to the Space Foundation team, supplying a Google Cardboard viewer, an iOS developer account (used for other projects and soon this one) and even a few on-the-clock training hours to dedicate towards VR development research (not to mention a week or more of in-office hours to finish up the app). You too can help the Space Foundation achieve their mission to inspire, enable and propel, by contributing to this and other projects. :D

Legal

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Space Foundation (www.spacefoundation.org)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.