A walk through ATLAS as a video game inspiration
Kristin Lohwasser, Leah Dungay · 2024
Showcasing the ATLAS detector and its enormous facilities to local audiences often proves challenging as it's difficult to convey the sheer size of the apparatus. In a project together with the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Sheffield, we have developed a virtual tour through the ATLAS experiment and the CERN site. It can be used in a web browser but is also available for use with Google Cardboard$^{\texttt{TM}}$, 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 asks participants to design a CERN-related videogame. This contribution presents the developed tour and gives an overview of its current use cases and received feedback.