{"id":18864,"date":"2017-07-21T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/augmented-reality-lets-you-step-through-museum-of-flights-portal-and-onto-nasas-historic-737-jet\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:36:08","slug":"augmented-reality-lets-you-step-through-museum-of-flights-portal-and-onto-nasas-historic-737-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/augmented-reality-lets-you-step-through-museum-of-flights-portal-and-onto-nasas-historic-737-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented reality lets you step through Museum of Flight\u2019s portal and onto NASA\u2019s historic 737 jet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Get ready to cross into an interdimensional portal, because one just appeared at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight: It\u2019s transporting visitors into an augmented-reality tour of a historic NASA plane.<\/p>\n

In a style similar to Pok\u00e9mon GO, the Museum of Flight\u2019s app places a portal onto the screen of a smartphone or tablet, blended in with a view of the real world. In real life, museumgoers are walking alongside the 1967 prototype Boeing 737, affectionately nicknamed \u201cBaby Boeing.\u201d The view from the augmented world, however, is much different.<\/p>\n

After stepping into the portal, the augmented-reality view shows a full-scale virtual model of the interior of the first 737 jet, which was initially used as a Boeing flight test aircraft and was turned over to NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in 1974. A peek inside reveals where the research experiments and data acquisition systems replaced the seats.<\/p>\n

The flying laboratory, known as the Transport System Research Vehicle or the \u201cAirborne Trailblazer,\u201d helped pave the way for modernized flight technology, improvements in fuel efficiency, better performance on slippery runways and much more.<\/p>\n

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The interior of the NASA Langley B-737. (Photo courtesy of NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Museum of Flight recruited Tosolini Productions to scan the airplane using Matterport 3-D technology, and then turn that data into an augmented-reality experience using Apple ARKit.<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s first augmented-reality tour follows up on its experiments with virtual reality.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Museum of Flight teamed up with Microsoft to create a VR experience similar to Google Street View. Users can drop into historic planes such as the B-17F Flight Fortress via a computer screen or VR goggles.<\/p>\n

A lot of the planes on display in the museum\u2019s Aviation Pavilion, including a Concorde and an Air Force One jet, are open to walk through in real life. But Peder Nelson, exhibit developer at the Museum of Flight, said this isn\u2019t the case with all exhibits.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot all of these planes can be accessed, so we\u2019re leveraging technologies like 3-D virtual tours to capture the interiors,\u201d he said in a video.<\/p>\n