About SOS Explorer
SOS Explorer (SOSx) Mobile is a free, flat screen mobile app version of the popular NOAA Science On a Sphere (SOS). This revolutionary software takes SOS datasets, usually only seen on a 6-foot sphere in large museum...
SOS Explorer (SOSx) Mobile is a free, flat screen mobile app version of the popular NOAA Science On a Sphere (SOS). This revolutionary software takes SOS datasets, usually only seen on a 6-foot sphere in large museum spaces, and makes them accessible, portable, and interactive anywhere. SOSx Mobile can immerse the user in animated images such as Saturn’s rings, atmospheric storms, climate change, and ocean temperatures to help explain sometimes complex environmental processes in a way that is intuitive, captivating, interactive, and entertaining. A desktop version, called SOS Explorer, is also available.
Features include:
• Streaming, high-resolution datasets
• Educational videos
• User-guided tours
• Analysis tools
• 100+ datasets
• Global and flat map views
Sample datasets:
• Recent Hurricane Seasons
• Bird Migration
• Earthquake Activity
• Snow and Ice
• Ocean Currents
• Historical Tsunamis
• Facebook Friendships
• Air Traffic
• Planets of the Solar System
• Climate Change Models
• 360 Underwater Imagery
• Narrated Movies
• ...and so much more!
What's New
Upgrade to Unity 2021.3: Experience improved performance and visual fidelity thanks to the latest version of the Unity engine.
Initial support for WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) data sets: Enjoy more efficient loading and visualization of high resolution data sets.
Expanded language support: We have added support for Spanish and Chinese languages, making our application more accessible to users worldwide.
Extended device compatibility: We're excited to announce support for Chromebook via the Google Play Store and for newer Samsung devices.
Automatic rotation of the globe and toggle for legends: Enhance your interaction with better controls of how information is presented on the screen.
Improved rendering for real-time satellite positions: Get a more accurate and visually pleasing representation of satellite data.
New video playback library: Enjoy a smoother video playback experience with AVPro 2.0.
Enhancements to analysis tools: Delve deeper into datasets with our improved and more accurate analysis tools.
Improved navigation controls: Explore the world more easily with our refined navigation controls in both globe and map modes.
Transition to UnityWebRequest for content downloading: Experience more efficient and reliable content delivery.
Updated UI for different device display safe zones: We've improved our user interface to respect the display safe zones for various devices.
Known Issues
We acknowledge a few known issues and are actively working towards their resolution:
Tour content display: Tour content may appear stretched on certain devices due to variations in screen aspect ratios.
Help screen timing: On slower devices, the help screen may appear prematurely.
Visual artifacts when unloading data sets: Users may notice temporary visual artifacts when unloading data sets.
Infinite scrolling in map view: Infinite horizontal scrolling is currently disabled in map view.
Average area analysis tool: This is currently disabled while we work on an improved UI experience.
For more information check out the FAQ .
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of SOS Explorer since it was posted on our website on 2019-08-03 13:43:28.
The latest version is 6120-24630 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 14:13:46. See below the changes in each version.
SOS Explorer version master-6120-24630
Updated At: 2023-12-20
Changes: In SOS Explorer, a bug was found,
Where Chinese texts were not sound.
Simplified, traditional, in a mix,
Characters missing, in a fix.
Now corrected, clarity abounds!
SOS Explorer version master-5915-23438
Updated At: 2023-09-05
Changes: Fixed playback slider & UI text issues. "Auto rotate" renamed to "orbit". Improved Analysis Window & Tools Menu for UI consistency.
SOS Explorer version master-5753-22445
Updated At: 2023-06-08
Changes: Upgrade to Unity 2021.3
Initial support for WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) data sets
Expanded language support
Extended device compatibility
Automatic rotation of the globe and toggle for legends
Improved rendering for real-time satellite positions
New video playback library
Enhancements to analysis tools
Improved navigation controls
Transition to UnityWebRequest for content downloading
Updated UI for different device display safe zones
SOS Explorer version master-5696-22135
Updated At: 2023-05-26
SOS Explorer version 1.11
Updated At: 2021-04-13
Changes: Improved reliability loading datasets and viewing abstracts and summaries on the web.
SOS Explorer version 1.1
Updated At: 2020-01-22
Changes: Updated libraries to be 64-bit compliant.
SOS Explorer version 1.1
Updated At: 2019-09-19
Changes: Now with performance improvements to dataset management! Measure distances on other celestial bodies and tilt the globe with three fingers.
SOS Explorer version 1.0
Updated At: 2019-07-31
Changes: Features include:
. Streaming, high-resolution datasets
. Educational videos
. User-guided tours
. Analysis tools
. 100+ datasets
. Global and flat map views
Disclaimer
Official Google Play Link
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