1. NASA and VR technology allow you to stand next to the Mars Curiousity rover, and elsewhere... virtually. Mars isn't the only VR experience NASA has prepared for VR adventurers: how about 40 light years away on the planet TRAPPIST-1d, or getting up close and personal with a rocket launch? "We already have these panoramas from years and years ago from the Opportunity mission that are full panoramas that could be put into a 360. So then the challenge was accepted by me to try to figure out how to cram that into the API that they were putting out," said Sasha Samochina, the person responsible for bringing these breathtaking VR vistas to the public. — POPULAR MECHANICS