Customer Reviews

Lunar Explorer Virtual Moon

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Sadly, I ordered this product before Major Schiller's informative review. As a matter of personal policy, I never "register" inexpensive software due to the spam and email/ID theft risks. Be warned that the sticker saying you have to register before the product is unlocked is INSIDE the CD case. There is no warning on the outside. This may affect returns, but is probably defensible. Sure, I'm willing to run their little maze - if they are willing to pay my hourly consultant's fees. As far as I'm concerned, I paid my money and I deserve a working product RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.

I purchased this software over a month ago. As others have described, there is a multi-step process to unlock the software in order to use it.
So far, I haven't gotten it unlocked. I have gone to their website to authorize the software as per the instructions. Whenever I click on the 'authorize' button, I get a cryptic message "scgiwrap: Caller must be the nobody user".
I have emailed their customer support and sales email addresses, and have never gotten a response.

So, to put it bluntly, this software is completely unusable to me, and the company that produced it has been unresponsive to my requests for help.

Once one gets through the registration maze ...not really that hard, it's really an amazing program. I hear an incredible update is coming henceforth. I'd like to hook up to a Head Mounted Display with head positioning tracking ...apparently this program can do it! Basically, the program provides Desktop Explorers with the most realistic experience ever of actually being on the surface of the Moon.

I've read: Lunar Explorer generates the entire surface of the Moon- 38 million square kilometers - and it renders this terrain in a high level of 3-D stereoscopic detail (at a high performance combined rate of 120 frames per second) in real time.

This is actually more than a game. It is helpful for people who are interested in finding craters, etc on the moon. With the latest NASA mission, we were able to find exactly where they put the rocket to find water.

"Visually amazing"....this is a definite bench march for how interactive simulation should be done.