Experience life on an aircraft carrier “floating city” in VR

For the 5,000 sailors aboard the united statesEisenhower, lengthy days and nights are the norm. The whole lot from flight operations to trash disposal should run easily on this floating metropolis. See the way it works in 360 levels.

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Obtain the USA TODAY app for extra nice VR within the “Digital Actuality” part.

In the midst of deployment coaching off the Atlantic Coast, the plane service USS Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 5,000 sailors ready for a missile strike.

Wearing flame-retardant hoods and gloves, they practiced battling fires, containing flooding and testing for chemical or organic brokers.

“All palms man battle stations,” commanders instructed over the ship’s communications system as alarms blared. “Missiles inbound, brace for shot.”

Hours later, the Eisenhower’s govt officer signaled the tip of the night time train. Robert Aguilar wasn’t comfortable. 

“We’re transferring out of coaching and transferring into fight,” he advised the ship. “That is no time for smoking and joking. We’re getting ourselves prepared for the warfare that we’re headed into.”

That was in April 2016. The Eisenhower and its accompanying service strike group, greater than 7,000 sailors in whole, deployed two months later to the japanese Mediterranean, the place they joined the worldwide battle to comprise ISIS and served as a deterrent to threats from Russia, Iran, Syria and others within the unstable area.

The place to search out “USS Eisenhower VR”

The USA TODAY NETWORK VR staff and a reporter from the Pensacola Information Journal visited the nuclear-powered plane service to collect unique 360-degree video and photographs throughout three days of round the clock air operations. An interactive VR expertise for the HTC Vive permits the consumer to discover a digital mannequin of the Eisenhower and uncover 360-degree photographs and movies from above and under deck. 

“Eisenhower VR” is the primary time a serious information group has advised a narrative combining 360-degree video and VR interactivity on such a big scale. 

Interactive variations can be found for the HTC Vive and for Google Daydream headsets.  360-degree video options are best-viewed on smartphones or VR by way of the Digital Actuality part of the USA TODAY app (iOS | Android), the USA TODAY YouTube and Fb channels. Samsung Gear or Ps VR customers can discover the movies within the Littlstar app.

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