Show HN: NASA Mars 2021 as full-scale VR puzzles We built a VR game with giant 3D puzzles[0], and to celebrate the successful landing of NASA Perseverance rover on Mars, we just added an experimental mini-series of Mars 2021 puzzles: - Perseverance rover at 1/3rd of the size - Perseverance at full-scale. At full scale in VR, it's impressive! Bigger than I thought! Screenshots for Perseverance VR puzzles: https://twitter.com/PecoPecoGame/status/1362880879966748679 - Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter, at full scale. Again, full-scale in VR is a cool way to get a sense of the size of Ingenuity (spoiler: the body is smaller than what I expected, but the blades are huge comparatively! That's because the martian atmosphere is much less dense than the earth atmosphere.) Screenshots for Ingenuity VR puzzle: https://twitter.com/PecoPecoGame/status/1365704324232454147 These are directly based on the official NASA models, so they have great accuracy. There's one puzzle to play for each model, and you can cut your own puzzles in VR if you want. The full-scale Perseverance puzzle has huge pieces! The wheels are enormous. It is also doubly experimental as you will need a really room-scale guardian to play. (or use vertical space!) And the 1/3 scale Perseverance model is really nice to discover it from any angle. The 54-piece puzzle that goes with the Ingenuity model is part easy, part quite hard! But I'm sure you'll do it if you like puzzles [0] https://ift.tt/3dWF8ax March 1, 2021 at 09:06PM
Show HN: Tape It, iOS recording app for musicians Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing. We had a great TechCrunch article covering our launch [3], and we posted it on various music websites. Turns out advertising on Google or Apple Search is a dark art, though. We have some good ideas for developing a good social media presence, but they will take time. Please hit us with feedback, opinions and advice that you think a young ind...
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