“JOURNEY TO THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM”

VR Educational Video for Quanta Magazine featuring Dr. David E. Kaplan

I was given the opportunity by Quanta Magazine to create and direct this educational virtual-reality experience featuring one of my favorite popular scientists; physicist and filmmaker Dr. David E. Kaplan (who made the film Particle Fever with Walter Murch). Partnering with my dear friend and 3d Wiz Jim Bowhall, together we brought this piece to 3d life by creating a little classic Carl Sagan Cosmos action with a green screen set up in David’s office at John’s Hopkins University. The piece now plays in planetariums across the world both as a VR experience and as an immersive 3d projected experience. It’s won multiple awards and Neil DeGrasse Tyson even tweeted his enthusiastic approval. So for me — it’s a science nerd’s dream come true.