Narrated 4D explainer. 163 moving parts and the light of the original scene, replayed live in your browser in step with the narration.
Press play for sound. Switch to Orbit to turn the scene yourself, or jump to a chapter. Keys: space plays, O orbits, F goes full screen.
Two minutes, narrated, with every part named as the narration reaches it.
The launch site clears away, the stack splits into its booster and its ship, and both open up: engines, propellant tanks, grid fins, flaps, the payload bay and the heat shield, each with its own card.
It is rebuilt on the pad and fuelled, then the countdown runs to ignition: steam, smoke and fire as it lifts off and climbs into the darker upper air. The climb is time-lapsed, and the mission clock shows the rate.
412,000 triangles move as they did in the original scene, coloured by its own lighting, shadows, frost and soot, with soft effects regenerated as Gaussians. Turn it to any angle, at any moment.
Played natively on Meta Quest 3 with ImmersiveX.
ImmersiveX places this explainer in your room at the size you choose, with its narration, captions and cards. Pick it from the content menu, walk around it, and lift a part out with your hand.
An independent educational visualisation by GenXR, modelled from publicly available information. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by SpaceX. Starship and Super Heavy are trademarks of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Some dimensions and the ascent figures are approximate.
