Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie & VR - Celebrating independence day with America's national pastime.

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• zboson Posts: 994 Poster of the Week

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  Watching Apollo 11 VR is how I would celebrate US independence day. I had the same emotional experience as the guy in this video.
  
  
  
  
  

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• SadGamerDad Posts: 337

  Trinity

  July 2017

  I forget about that title. Dang it. I need to give it a go for sure. 

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• nalex66 Posts: 6,369 Volunteer Moderator

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  zboson said:

  
  
  

  The moon landing happened on my parents' first wedding anniversary. I suspect I was named after Neil Armstrong (the name Neil enjoyed a surge of popularity around that time).
  

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• zboson Posts: 994 Poster of the Week

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  I think Apollo 11 VR was the first thing I bought in the Oculus Store. I would love to see more interactive movie experiences like this. I also invested in Titanic VR on Kickstarter.
  
  This calls for one of my favorite Rush songs: Countdown from the Signals album about the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Rush_song). Neil Peart (who writes most of the lyrics for Rush) is a US citizen now so it's appropriate.
  
  
  

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• SadGamerDad Posts: 337

  Trinity

  July 2017

  Kick ass song and video! took me right back to being a kid again. Man those were heady days!

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• zboson Posts: 994 Poster of the Week

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  The Space Shuttle was awesome. It could bring back a large payload.
  
  I think a lot of people don't realize that the SU had a space shuttle program. Some dudes recently filmed some of the abandon shuttles.
  
  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/breaking-into-the-buran-graveyard-aging-soviet-vehicles-still-impress/
  
  That reminds me of Chernobyl VR which incidentally is a highly underrated Oculus app.
  
  https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1028758880514808/
  

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