The system, based on the technology cheoptics hologram, has a holographic viewer implemented with mixed reality technology (real objects together with virtual reality), at full size and with excellent image quality. That allows visitors to walk on the red planet, to develop multiple aspects of the research or to know the expectations of the International scientific community in the face of this great challenge of humanity, which is to reach Mars.

The viewer, developed by the IRTIC, has unknown content designed ad hoc by the Príncipe Felipe Museum. The collaboration is supported by the Generalitat Valenciana and, regarding the Universitat de València, is framed within the lines of research of the IRTIC in the area of advanced multi-modal interaction, and concretely in the educative entertainment area or edutaiment. In addition to its application in the field of scientific dissemination, as the case of the exhibition “Mars, the conquest of a dream”, the holographic device will be useful as a prototype for conducting presence and evaluation studies of this new technology that consists of creating three-dimensional images based on the use of light.

“Mars, the conquest of a dream”, is co-produced by the City of Arts and Sciences and Telefónica Foundation, with the collaboration of the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) and the European Space Agency (ESA).

The exhibition, that includes this holographic system, was open last 29 May by the Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque and will be open to the public for 18 months at the City of Arts and Sciences museum.