NASA Offers $70,000 For The Best Martian Metaverse Design
If you’re a programmer and would like to dip your toes into creating a Martian metaverse, then NASA wants you.
What’s up with the new challenge? NASA is currently looking for ambitious and innovative programmers who can create the best design of the epic Martian metaverse for a grand prize of $70,000.
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NASA’s MarsXR Challenge
Elon Musk believes a Mars coin will be minted – and NASA now wants to create that Martian metaverse. Everything seems to revolve around Mars these days.
The MarsXR challenge is an initiative founded by the US space agency in partnership with Buendea and Epic Games.
The MarsXR challenge has a prize pool of $70,000 (NFT Drops Calendar).
The challenge is aimed at game and app developers who want to contribute to the creation of immersive experiences around the Martian metaverse with the integration of virtual reality (XR).
The challenge is for game developers to create new environments and features aimed at the MarsXR Operations Support System (XOSS) ecosphere with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 integration.
NASA published detailed information about Mars for Martian Day. Information includes weather conditions, colors, shadows and 400 square kilometers of visually appealing and realistic terrain that you can find on the Red Planet.
NASA and Epic Games team up
NASA definitely knows who to collaborate with on the MarsXR challenge.
Epic Games, NASA’s MarsXR challenge partner, is incredibly famous for Unreal Engine 5, its innovative programming engine that was used for Kingdom Hearts IV and Fortnite. Big companies like LEGO’s Kiribi and SONY have invested billions of dollars in Unreal Engine 5.
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$70,000 Prize for MarsXR Challenge Winners
The MarsXR challenge developed by NASA has a huge prize pool of $70,000. So if you’re a developer looking to contribute to a larger idea or goal, this is your cue to jump in and join the MarsXR challenge.
There are five categories and 20 distinctions included in which creators are free to design individual sets or environments. There would be four winners or prizes. Each category winner will receive US$6,000.
According to NASA’s schedule, the application deadline will be on July 26th. After a two-month evaluation period, the winner will be announced on September 27, 2022.
As of this writing, some 266 innovators and 25 teams have joined the challenge.
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