The Planets Are Room-Sized.
You Can Walk Through Them.
Every description of Star Walk mentions planets and the solar system. What those descriptions miss — what you genuinely cannot understand until you're standing inside the room with the glasses on — is the scale.
Mars appears in the middle of the room at roughly six to ten feet in diameter. Not a model of Mars. Not a picture of Mars. A holographic Mars, in three dimensions, large enough that you can walk toward it, around it, past it, and — if you choose — straight through it. The red surface detail is visible. The polar ice caps are there. You can look at it from the side, tilt your head to see the top, crouch to look at it from below.
The other planets are rendered similarly. The Sun blazes and fills a significant portion of the room. Saturn's rings extend outward in actual three-dimensional space around you. This is not a screen you look at. This is a solar system you stand inside.
Star Walk at Mind Bender AR — Earth appears in the physical room, rendered in holographic 3D through Snap Spectacles glasses
There's a specific moment in Star Walk — it happens to almost everyone on their first visit — where you look at a planet filling the room around you, remember that you're standing in Jacksonville Beach in a room on Beach Boulevard, and the two facts simply refuse to coexist. That's when the experience earns its reputation.
