Telescopic

Learn your way around the night sky through virtual reality

In Telescopic, you start off in the middle of nowhere, sitting on a chair that has a big telescope attached to it, with a great big clear view of the sparkling heavens. In VR, this means it’s just you and the telescope with no distractions. Rather than actually peeking into scopes and eyepieces, you’ll be staying in your chair to interact with the telescope, and it’s where you can manage your goals, achievements, unlockables, and fiddle with various options. Telescopic is a combination of a telescope simulator + observatory + planetarium that aims to make learning your way around the night sky fun. The Gear VR’s touchpad is used to aim the telescope, and interact with UI elements. The player can switch between various modes: UI, scope, telescope, and sky rotation. The scope mode is used to generally aim the telescope, and the telescope mode is used to get a deep view of the target. Looking up at the sky from your chair, you will not see helpful constellations drawn onto the sky, no labels, no celestial compass. But, when you look into the telescope, you’ll potentially see far more than any real backyard telescope can reveal.