XR Solutions, Inc — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S14

Description

NASA needs tools that allow people to visualize and understand the complex space environment. Three dimensional augmented, mixed, and virtual reality (AR, MR and VR, or collectively extended reality - XR) provide a way to enhance space data understanding and improve the quality of space domain-related decision-making. Company proposes using a mixed reality medium to meet the objectives of this solicitation, with respect to making informed decisions concerning space weather by combining amp; displaying space weather-related data sources in one platform. Mixed reality blends the real world withnbsp;digital assets contextually placed in an environment. It lends itself to a collaborative experience that can be sharednbsp;with peers or quot;multiuserquot;.Dauntless XR proposes a mixed reality holodeck platform to collaboratively view space weather data on coronal mass ejections (CMEs) visualized in immersive 3D. Dubbed ldquo;Aurardquo; the proposed solution enables users to integrate NASA data into their decision-making process and make more informed decisions regarding space weather. We propose to accomplish this by taking data from anbsp;Unified Data Library API and visualizing the datanbsp;as a realistic 3D artifact in the Aura holodeck as it becomes available, paired with relevant standards, best practices, and data interpretation tips. The proposed innovation is hardware agnostic across headsets, phones, and tablets to maximize accessibility.nbsp;The proposed innovation makes NASA space weather data easy to access, quick to understand, and seamless to integrate into a workflow, even as forecasts remain uncertain. Aura for space weather would provide value to a general audience to educate and foster further innovation and inquiry to those with space domain expertise who may or may not be traditional users of NASAs data. As a digitally native solution the proposed platform is able to use existing data sources, but also add new ones as they become available giving the solution longevity and agility to adapt.