NASA, the U.S. space agency, has recently posted a challenge to attract developers to help it build a Martian metaverse environment to aid in training purposes.
NASA, the U.S. space agency, has partnered with Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, to build a challenge for developers to help create a Martian metaverse experience. The challenge will include various tasks, including designing several key environments for Martian astronauts, which will be rendered using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 to provide a realistic environment.a challenge to attract developers to help build a Martian metaverse environment to aid in training purposes.
”The challenge aims to populate an already-started metaverse world called MarsXR, which has now mapped 400 kmof Mars terrain, with realistic day/night cycles, all modeled with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, which will also be used by the developers to create the submissions in the challenge.The virtual experiences that NASA has defined as categories for this task include set up camp, scientific research, maintenance, exploration, and blow our minds, each one with a different purpose to fulfill.
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