Virtual telescope

Arghh, Apps like this dont really do astronomy any favours. I wish with apps like this they would atleast place you on a part of the planet that is actually mapped rather than just a whimsical backdrop. Atleast attempt accuracy with what we know. Even Pluto has been photographed with enough detail to be able to achieve this. Generating a few mountain ranges and changing the colours is just not accurate and is actually damaging for the uneducated that think that it is. The detail Mars could have had would have been fascinating. Yeah its only 5 bucks but the quality is just not there for this type of app.

A very impressive Space Simulation that I can highly recommend for the price. A little caveat remains, the loading times are a bit too long as well as the software keyboard needs an improvement. Check out the following video where I also talk about NEW SPACE, the new way of commercial space which will play a huge role in the future. Video Podcast and short review in one! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUEs1A90V90

I've found nice place on Mars to start colonization. Should show it to Elon :) Actually here big planets in the sky and some astronomical stuff but graphics could be better.

Amazing simulation! Using VR to discover the night sky above your city is great! The simulation lets you travel to any place in space and time and thus you can watch the sunrise on Mars or the solar eclipse you missed last year - fantastic! There are several premade events (like the blood moon from last month) which can be selected directly. However while the simulation itself is great already everything else is still a bit rough and needs some more work. The graphics look good, but I get reprojections (Ryzen7-1700X, 8GB, Nvidia GTX1070). The userinterface is very annoying: using the touchpad of the Vive you control a dot (like a mouse-pointer) and by pressing the touchpad an option is selected. This sounds ok, but the touchpad is rather inprecise and when trying to press it, the dot jumps to a different position. One of the biggest features is the control of time especially its speed. But to increase or decrease the speed you need to aim at small buttons using this dot. A different scheme for time control would be nice and an extra option to just pause time (currently after max speed comes pause before it goes reverse in max speed, which makes it even harder to stop at the desired moment).

Very Nice program. It's still supposedly in it's early stages, so I have a few recomendations. First the controls. They need to be changed. It's just not accurate for the things you need to do, (especially typing) Next it should save your position and time. It gets annoying to have to put in your coordinates and time, after you move your viewpoint to the moon, or another planet. Then more celestial events. Like the Loenid Meteor Shower. Or other secestial events like solar flares (they may not be major, but it would be cool to look through the teslescope (or the tablet) and see those. Better landscapes. if I put in the cordinates for a city, then the landscape should be a city. Maybe get permission from google maps to use their 3D map of the world. (I know that may be a little far fetched) And finally, maybe a way to track the direction the headset is pointing. If I'm facing the eastern sky in real life, I shouldn't see the northern sky when I open the program. Or maybe when the program opens, there should be a message telling the user to "Face North" so they will accurately be positioned. Finally, there are a few gramatical errors. Like it tells me I cannot rotate the telescope UNTIL IT MORE THAN 2000. It should actually say that the telescope needs to be LESS than 200 in the magnification to rotate it.

Haven't played very far in-depth. As other reviewers have mentioned, the controls are a little clunky (using the touchpad instead of pointing at things on a menu), I was a bit annoyed during my first playthrough when I had to complete the tutorial twice--once on each hand. Couldn't figure out how to get the telescope working (If it works?), but the sky was pretty nevertheless. I especially liked being able to walk across the surface of Venus. So cool! As the game is now, it's very barebones and I wouldn't recommend it, but I think as the development team keeps working on it, it could make for an incredible experience.

[b]Gut aber fummelig!![/b] Das "Game" bzw. die Erfahrung startet aufn ner Wiese auf der Erde und neben einem steht (Überraschung...!) ein Teleskop. Dieses kann man problemlos auf jedes sichtbare Objekt am Himmel ausrichten. Soweit so gut... Will man allerdings etwas mehr sehen (Details, Zoom usw.) geht die via Menü Fummelei auch schon los. Ausrichten und durchglotzen is ni, weil man erst noch den Zoomfaktor einstellen muß > via Menü, man kann sich zwar auch einen Frame einblenden wo man quasi eine Art Großbild von der aktuellen Sicht des Telekops hat, allerdings muß man da eben wieder via Menü den Zoomfaktor, Teleskopdurchmesser usw einstellen. Kurzum; man kann zwar das komplette (bekannte [sichtbare ;)]) betrachten, man sollte aber einiges an Gedult mitbringen. Schöner wärs gewesen wenn man auf die "via Menü" Zoom, TelGröße usw. verzichtet hätte und das Ganze via Gestensteuerung angelegt hätte > "Ich will den Mond sehen" (Suchoption gibts im Game btw.) also MOND (oder man findet den am virtuellen (Nacht)Himmel und "klickt" den an. Da hätte ich aber gerne eine Vollbildansicht (ein Fenster gibts ja wenigstens) aber schöner wärs wenn ich dort via Gesten, von mir aus auch mitn Touchpad den Zoomfaktor ändern könnte. Pros des Games ist die "Travel" Funct., man kann also so ziemlich jeden Himmelskösper besuchen den es gibt, schwieriger wirds dann zB wenn man auf Stern X steht die Erdezu finden, bzw von Stern X auf die Erde zu "sehen". Das ist wieder der Menümacherrei geschuldet, man kriegt das hin, fummelt aber wieder ne Weile... Auch toll find ich die View3D Geschichte, d.h. man kann den ausgewählten Himmelskörper als "Mini" 3D Ansicht mit reichlich Hintergrundinfos anzeigen lassen (also fürn Stern zB, Entfernung, Klasse, Mag, Lum usw.) Kaufen?? NNNjjjaaaaaaa....... SCHON, weil man doch schon ne schöne Reise durchs Universum machen kann ALLERDINGS bleibt eben diese xtreme und umständliche (ich kanns leider nicht anders als) FUMMELEI (bezeichnen)! Das Erlebnis ist auf jeden Fall einen Blick / Versuch wert; was die Steuerung angeht wurde auf jeden Fall vehement Potenzial verschenkt!