NASA Is Creating a Virtual Reality Mission To Mars (roadtovr.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Mars 2030 Experience' is part of NASA's ongoing efforts to build public support in a real manned mission to the Red Planet. Partnering with FUSION to produce the experience, NASA wants the mission to simulate life as one of the first astronauts on Mars. Incorporating research directly from NASA and MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics PhD candidate Sydney Do, the VR experience will take users on an 'extravehicular activity' and put them in the Z-2 spacesuit, a real prototype currently in development at NASA. There are also plans to add multiplayer functionality to the game and launch with support for the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard in 2016.

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Re:Will it simulate drinking one's own urine?

[Irate Engineer]

Water recycling technology to do just this is being tested and used on the ISS now. That's the main mission for the ISS, to sort these logistical technologies out.

If you drink your own piss untreated, you're going to die. You excrete urine for a reason; it's poison in high concentrations.