Posted this above but send up some robots and hook em up to a cool VR thing. Obviously this would be crazy expensive and you couldn't let people that might break it at the controls so probably no public access, but whatever, it's a step towards something we could all experience. It would at least make a cool stream to watch.
All I'm saying is that any sort of real-time interactive Mars drone piloting experience just wouldn't work. Imagine playing Mario Kart but it would take 8 minutes from you pressing left on the analog stick for your kart to turn to the left, and another 8 minutes for the screen to show you that your kart turned to the left
It'd probably make more sense to record a bunch of data on Mars and then creating a virtual VR experience based on that (We could probably already do that tbh). Or maybe having rovers with 360 VR recording equipment doing regular preprogrammed tours and then showing the recordings to people afterward.
The time/light delay between Earth and Mars is anywhere between four minutes and 25 minutes one way, and then there's weeks where communication between the two planets is all but impossible because the sun's in the way. NASA programs the Mars robots' whole day, every action, well in advance. To just plug in to a VR system to 1:1 control a Mars robot you'd pretty much need to be on Mars anyway, or in Mars orbit at least.
Posted this above but send up some robots and hook em up to a cool VR thing. Obviously this would be crazy expensive and you couldn't let people that might break it at the controls so probably no public access, but whatever, it's a step towards something we could all experience. It would at least make a cool stream to watch.
Love loading into the Mars Robot lobby and seeing the 480000 ms ping
So you have to wait
All I'm saying is that any sort of real-time interactive Mars drone piloting experience just wouldn't work. Imagine playing Mario Kart but it would take 8 minutes from you pressing left on the analog stick for your kart to turn to the left, and another 8 minutes for the screen to show you that your kart turned to the left
It'd probably make more sense to record a bunch of data on Mars and then creating a virtual VR experience based on that (We could probably already do that tbh). Or maybe having rovers with 360 VR recording equipment doing regular preprogrammed tours and then showing the recordings to people afterward.
Run a cable.
The time/light delay between Earth and Mars is anywhere between four minutes and 25 minutes one way, and then there's weeks where communication between the two planets is all but impossible because the sun's in the way. NASA programs the Mars robots' whole day, every action, well in advance. To just plug in to a VR system to 1:1 control a Mars robot you'd pretty much need to be on Mars anyway, or in Mars orbit at least.
Run a cable
Fucking wait then.