360VR
King Sejong Station Full-Site 360 VR — Korea Polar Research Institute
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A 360° record of the entire King Sejong Station in Antarctica, operated by the Korea Polar Research Institute, turned into a web VR tour. Choose a building on the map to go inside, then pass through its doors into the next space. Aerial panoramas looking down over the station from five directions are included as well.
Spaces photographed
- Main building — vestibule, corridor, lounge, library, showers, Sejong Hall, kitchen, food storage, clinic, X-ray room
- Exhibition hall (former living quarters) — 7 exhibition rooms
- Research building — laboratory, wet lab, three dry labs, atmospheric and space science lab
- Mechanical building — desalination unit, boiler, fresh water tank, emergency generator, electrical room, tool storage, fitness room, laundry
- Power plant — 9 points from the entrance through the interior
- Observation building — upper atmosphere · atmosphere · atmospheric composition · space environment
- Heavy equipment maintenance · storage · workshop buildings
- Small boat storage · rubber boat storage · maintenance room · air filling room · diving office · survival suit changing room
- Marine environment lab · seawater pump room · fuel pump room · emergency shelter
- Outdoors — Sejong Station pier, gymnasium, warehouse, fuel tanks, Hyundai Lake (artificial freshwater reservoir), the shore facing Bellingshausen Station, memorial to the late Jeon Jae-gyu
- Aerial panoramas — center · east · west · south · north
100 points photographed in total.
Features
- Tap a building on the station map to go straight there
- Photo gallery
- Mobile gyroscope — the view follows as you turn your device
- VR headset support (WebVR)
How to explore
Drag to look around, and scroll or pinch to zoom. Tap a hotspot on the floor to move to the next space, or open the map to jump straight to any building. It opens in PC and mobile browsers with nothing to install.
Where it’s used
Only a handful of people ever set foot on an Antarctic station. A full 360° record serves pre-deployment training for overwintering crews, maintenance history and public outreach and education as is. Capturing the facilities before they change also gives it real archival value.
