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VIGOR: Virtual Interaction with Gravitational Waves to Observe Relativity

verfasst von : Midori Kitagawa, Michael Kesden, Ngoc Tran, Thulasi Sivampillai Venlayudam, Mary Urquhart, Roger Malina

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Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In 2015, a century after Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from binary black holes fully consistent with this theory. Our goal for VIGOR (Virtual-reality Interaction with Gravitational waves to Observe Relativity) is to communicate this revolutionary discovery to the public by visualizing the gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes. VIGOR has been developed using the Unity game engine and VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2 and Samsung Gear VR). Wearing a VR headset, VIGOR users control an avatar to “fly” around binary black holes, experiment on the black holes by manipulating their total mass, mass ratio, and orbital separation, and witness how gravitational waves emitted by the black holes stretch and squeeze the avatar. We evaluated our prototype of VIGOR with high school students in 2016 and are further improving VIGOR based on our findings.

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Application Program Interface (APS) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
VIGOR: Virtual Interaction with Gravitational Waves to Observe Relativity
verfasst von
Midori Kitagawa
Michael Kesden
Ngoc Tran
Thulasi Sivampillai Venlayudam
Mary Urquhart
Roger Malina
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57987-0_33

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