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Hadrien Gurnel, software engineer EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) explores with a virtual reality helmet the most detailed 3D map of the universe with the virtual reality software VIRUP, Virtual Reality Universe Project developed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) scientists of the Laboratory of Astrophysics (LASTRO) at EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), in St-Sulpice near Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. The open-source beta software VIRUP that builds, in real-time, a virtual universe based on the most detailed contemporary astrophysical and cosmological data. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

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Big picture, big data: Swiss unveil VR software of universe
October 12, 2021 6 p.m.

Big picture, big data: Swiss unveil VR software of universe

Think a sort of Google Earth — but for the universe