Travel Through Space in Virtual Reality at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!

A couple of weeks ago I sat inside a small room wearing a virtual reality head set at the ARUP SoundLab in lower Manhattan. The room was capable of simulating any environment through sound. In this case, that environment was outer space—pecifically, the inside of one of the better-known interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the Orion Nebula.“This is a five minute exploration through the cosmos, alongside the Hubble Telescope, as you’re transported into the Orion Nebula, and expe