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As Carl Sagan famously said, 鈥淲e are all made of star-stuff.鈥�

This VR experience was created to remind us of a fundamental connection to humanity and the universe. Floating in space, your hands are traced as a myriad of constellations while stars emanate from and orbit your body. Moving and playing with the stars, you form a galaxy unique to you and your movements.

At the in-person exhibit, the experience becomes a multi-user one where others appear to you as another set of constellations. The gravitational effects of your bodies draw your stars towards each other, forming a new collaborative and dynamic sculpture in the night sky.

Flying dreams have the potential to evoke a feeling of empowerment and self-transcendent emotions (STEs). However, these exceptional dreaming experiences remain infrequent. Since virtual reality (VR) also has the potential to support profound emotional experiences, researchers on this project are interested in investigating if a dream-inspired VR flying experience could make the benefits of a flying dream more accessible.

An experience developed as an isolation countermeasure for the SIRIUS isolation study which aims to find ways to mitigate the psychological effects of isolation.

This research project is run in collaboration with the ESA, NASA, UAE Space Agency, Germany鈥檚 DLR, and the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) involving experiments from teams from all around the world.