Belle II in VR
Belle II in Virtual Reality
Stand inside the Belle II particle detector in Japan and watch electrons and positrons collide, with the debris of each collision streaming out through the detector around you. A free, research grade visualisation built by the team behind real particle physics.
Belle II in Virtual Reality is a free visualisation of the Belle II experiment, a particle detector at the KEK laboratory in Japan that studies the collisions of electrons with their antimatter partners, positrons. It was released on Steam on 5 March 2018 by a team from Virginia Tech, combining the university's Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology, its Department of Physics and its School of Education. Virginia Tech is part of the international Belle II collaboration.
Inside the app you can walk through a model of the detector built from its real geometry and watch simulated collision events play out, with particles flying outwards through the detector's layers. Five events are built in, and more can be loaded from a folder. Besides SteamVR, it was offered free for Rift and Go through the Oculus Store, and the team also provides desktop versions for Windows, Mac and Linux and a browser version that need no headset.
- Completely free
- Made by physicists working on the experiment
- Real detector geometry
- Shows matter and antimatter collisions
- Desktop and browser versions for students without headsets
- Creative Commons licence
- Little explanation built in
- Dated, functional presentation
- Older headset support
- Content is advanced for younger students
- No Quest store version
- Developer
- Virginia Tech (ICAT, Physics, School of Education)
- Release
- 5 March 2018
- Price
- Free
- Platforms
- SteamVR, Rift, Go, desktop, browser
- Experiment
- Belle II at KEK, Japan
- Built in events
- 5
- Licence
- Creative Commons BY NC SA 4.0
