Perot Museum leaders, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unveil Dinaledi virtual reality app
Free virtual reality experience explores a South African cave where some of history's most famous ancient human fossils were discovered; app provides global access to researchers, students and amateur explorers to a place few have visited.
Berger - who recently dominated world science headlines with his discovery of Homo naledi, a new species of human relative - was joined by Perot Museum CEO Dr. Linda Silver and Perot Museum research scientist and Director of the Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey Dr. Becca Peixotto for a Facebook Live news conference watched by journalists and academics from across the world.
The free app, which is optimized for Google cardboard but compatible with any headset, allows people all over the globe to virtually tour the cave that very few people - including "underground astronaut" Dr. Peixotto - have visited in person (due to the extremely narrow, 8-inch "chute" through which it is accessed).
See the full story here: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/pmon-pm102318.php