17–24 Jul 2024
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

Virtual tours and videogames to showcase the ATLAS experiment

18 Jul 2024, 08:45
15m
Club C

Club C

Parallel session talk 15. Education and Outreach Education and Outreach

Speaker

Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))

Description

Showcasing the ATLAS detector and its enormous facilities to local audiences often proves difficult as it's difficult to convey the sheer size of the project. In a project together with the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Sheffield, we have developed a virtual tour through ATLAS and the CERN site. It can be used in a web browser but is also available for use with google cardboard, a cheap but effective VR headset based on mobile phones. The virtual tour has been successfully used in a number of outreach events, and is also integrated into a workshop devised with the NVM that incorporates the physics of video games, particle physics and ask participants to design a CERN-related videogame. This contribution presents the developed tours and their implementation and gives an overview over its current use cases and received feedback.

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Authors

Frederic Deliot (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))

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