NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a US research and development center that publishes Exploring Mars, a native Apple Vision Pro educational experience featuring the Perseverance rover and a reconstruction of Jezero Crater.
Exploring Mars is a native Apple Vision Pro educational experience from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It lets viewers inspect and resize the Perseverance rover, then enter a reconstruction of Jezero Crater built from rover imagery and data.
Matt Dessero is a human interface designer at Apple who has publicly explained the capture, visual-effects, audio, and interaction work behind Apple Vision Pro environments.
Yuri Imoto works in Apple Vision Pro product marketing and has publicly discussed how Apple creates the headset's immersive environments, including its Jupiter moon environment.
Popular Science interviewed Apple Vision Pro product marketer Yuri Imoto and human interface designer Matt Dessero about creating the headset's Jupiter moon and terrestrial environments. They described working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, combining panoramic capture with 3D scans, LiDAR and shaders, and adding M5-enabled dynamic shadows while balancing realism with a usable workspace.
Cool Hunting interviewed Apple's Yuri Imoto and Matt Dessero about the emotional and technical design of Apple Vision Pro environments. The discussion covers panoramic capture, LiDAR, acoustic meshes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory guidance for the Jupiter setting, and the practice of evaluating environment design from inside the headset.