This fantastic virtual tour video (which now features pre-Alpha footage and is to be considered a work in progress) – accompanied by Jerry Goldsmith’s sweeping Star Trek: First Contact score (one of my favorites – always brings tears to my eyes) – makes you feel as if you were indeed a member of the Enterprise crew. Furthermore, he said that he plans to optimize the simulation for virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Check out the project’s virtual tour demo in the video below. They usually are 360 degree panoramic, without actual movement or immersion. Due to the show’s limited television budget, the scope, detail, and variety of what the audience could see was restricted. The goal is to serve as a virtual museum, where you can explore every deck and room. Fans would be able to visit engineering via the turbolift, or walk from Deck 36 to Deck 5 to see the Arboretum. Sprinkled throughout these decks are all of the control rooms for weapons, sickbays, holodecks, and crew quarters. Malls? Markets? Gardens? All these questions will be answered. But when Unreal Engine 4 was released, he said: “I chose to port over my bridge, and go all in on making the rest of the ship!” Perhaps in the future the creators could add other crewmembers and even missions for users to complete. According to Engadget the designer is thinking about possible crowdfunding the project in order to get more help but that in turn will then require CBS to actually approve the licensing behind it.
