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Canadian Company ConVRter Beats NASA to Pluto in Virtual Reality

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ConVRter Technologies Inc. announced today that it has made a virtual reality version of the Pluto flyby in full stereoscopic 360 where the viewer can experience the distant dwarf planet as if they were sitting on the New Horizon's space craft itself. "Everyone in the company is a bit of a tech nerd and we had been working on VR space content for a while so when Pluto was finally imaged up close I don't think watching it on TV was quite the experience we were after," said Jonathan Kitzen, CEO, "so we went for a full VR experience. We all wanted to have that feeling of floating in space and seeing a planet as if we were there."

The app, titled Pluto Flyby VR, is part of a series that recreates the entire solar system in Virtual Reality called Space: the Final Frontier and it is being offered for free in iOS for Google Cardboard for a limited time. The full solar system version is on sale now with new planets added all the time – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter are all scheduled for the first week of February. "Because it is an app we can continuously update and add to it so unlike traditional media it is always current," explained Kitzen, "this is the power of applications."

The App is now available on Itunes, Google Play, and a non-app version which is not in 3d is available on YouTube 360, links to all forms of media are on http://www.conVRter.net including versions suitable for 3D viewing on Sony Playstation and other games supporting Virtual Reality and 3D.

Read the full story here: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/01/p6190596/canadian-company-convrter-beats-nasa-to-pluto-in-virtual-reality