Star Chart Cardboard APK
App information
Version 1.3 (#12)
Updated 2023-01-27
APK Size 83.7 MB
Requires Android Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean)
Offered by Escapist Games Limited
Category Free Education App
App id com.escapistgames.starchartvr
Developer's notes View the night sky and explore the Solar System in Virtual Reality!
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Table of contents
Latest updates
What's new in Star Chart Cardboard 1.3
- General Bug fixes and enhancements
- Added Messiers
- Added switch to earth sky view from any planet/moon
- New planet menus
- New basic tutorial
Editor's review
Download the latest Star Chart Cardboard application, version 1.3, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Education app is developed by Escapist Games Limited and is easy to download and install.
Previous versions, including 1.3, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.
Description
Delight in exploring the solar system, from the Sun to the smallest moons of Saturn and out to the coldest, darkest, farthest reaches of Pluto. Gaze down and marvel at our solar system from above. Look up in wonder at the rings of Saturn. Feel the awe of floating in space around worlds no human has yet set foot on. Understand how the constellations of our night sky are made up of stars distant to each other in both space and time. Embrace the impossible distances of our solar system and the inordinate scale of our universe.
Star Chart VR is the virtual reality version of the hugely successful augmented reality astronomy & star gazing app - Star Chart - downloaded by over 20 million people world-wide.
Features currently include:
- An accurate real-time simulation of the visible stars and planets as you see them from Earth
- A 3D solar system to explore, including the Sun, the planets and major moons
- All 88 constellations based on the beautiful artwork of 17th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius
- 5,000 of the most visible stars of the night sky
- Named geological surface features on most of the rocky planets and moons of the solar system.
- And much more.
Cardboard Controls:
- Centre a solar body in your view (planet / moon / the sun / etc.) to select it
- Tap on the pad / click to travel closer / go to a selected solar body
- At nearest view of a solar body, a tap or click will bring up a menu of options. Depending on the body and available functionality, the following options may be present:
- Toggle Geological Surface names on / off. Only available for those solar bodies that the IAU have confirmed names for.
- Toggle view mode. Turning your head will either rotate the camera view or rotate the camera around the object.
- SkyView mode. This will take you to the night sky view from Earth of your current GPS location.
Gamepad controller support includes:
- Tap button 1 to replicate the 'click' functionality
- Tap button 2 to return to 'go away' from your current view
- Left analog stick controls the 'rotate camera around object' view mode
Please NOTE:
1) Star Chart VR requires a VR viewer (eg Google Cardboard) with magnetic 'click' functionality to use. Learn more and get your own Cardboard viewer at http://g.co/cardboard
2) Virtual Reality is best experienced running at 60 frames per second. Most high end modern phones will provide you with smooth frame-rate (a result of processing speed) and seamless head tracking (a result of sensor update speed and accuracy). If you are experiencing issues, shutting down background tasks may help with performance. Star Chart for VR was developed on a Samsung Galaxy S6 running Android 5.1.1 and runs beautifully on this and higher end devices.
3) Written from the ground up for Virtual Reality, Star Chart VR is in many ways a superior product to the original Star Chart, but please do not expect feature parity. We will continue to develop and enhance Star Chart VR over time, so at some point Star Chart VR may reach parity (where applicable), but there are no promises.
Feel free to provide us with your thoughts, feedback and feature requests, and for help using Star Chart VR please see the Virtual Reality section of our Star Chart User Guide: www.escapistgames.com/starchart/instruction_manual.html
App permissions
Star Chart Cardboard 1.3 APK requires following permissions:
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Ratings and Reviews
Rating: 4.2/5 based on Less than 100 reviews
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5 ★ Incredibly awesome
5 ★ I show this app to many and they are so impressed they also download and they too are investing in VR as well great choice, great app. Great Star Chart.
4 ★ I enjoyed it and hope more features will be added. Like Messier pictures and ISS transits etc...
2 ★ Not at all accurate
4 ★ impressed with the vr.
5 ★ First of all, I don't always want to break out Starry Night just to relax and stare at the stars and various pieces of information about them. I love that this shows their names and asterisms and I love MORE that it shows their status, even if they are on the main sequence. I wish it also had options like disabling asterisms or removing the charming but sometimes frustrating pause before displaying information. It would be great if it included DSOs, but even without I LOVE IT.
4 ★ Looks like your update fixed the zooming issue I had earlier. Works perfectly! Although I will say that my phone gets very hot using this app. I can only use it for so long before I have to turn it off.
5 ★ Traveling the cosmos in Star Chart VR is an absolute blast; slick and intuitive UI coupled with some very impressive textures and 3D effects make this one of the most impressive VR applications I've used to date.
5 ★ I couldn't believe my 3 years old Nexus can run this at full speed, the sense of presence in the universe is unbelievable
4 ★ Excellent start. Impressive graphics. Would love to be able to view deep sky objects e.g. nebulae, galaxies and cluster etc around constellations. Keep it up!
4 ★ Overall very fun and I worth the money. The controls for how far away one is from a planet could use some polish.
1 ★ Lol. I either can't get this figured out there is not much to it. Supposed to be like looking through a viewer I guess. Saw nothing 3D. Print was so small I couldn't read it. Don't waste your money.
5 ★ My god, it’s full of stars! ;)
2 ★ Very basic, stars are just a flat spherical canvas, the only three dimensional element is earth floating around the middle, needs much more depth for a VR experience.
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