Now you can watch a slick SpaceX rocket landing in augmented reality

A rocket landing in your own backyard.
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Miriam Kramer
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Now you can watch a slick SpaceX rocket landing in augmented reality
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SpaceX keeps landing its rockets back on Earth after launching to space. But if you can't make it to Florida for a Falcon 9 landing yourself, now you can check it out in augmented reality.

A new 20-second video shows off what it would be like to watch a miniature Falcon 9 first stage land on a virtual drone ship in a backyard pool.

Usually these kinds of landings happen on a square-shaped drone ship in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans, but hey, the scaled-down version is pretty awesome in its own right.

Developer Tomás García created the augmented reality video using ARkit, a tool that allows users to create their own augmented reality videos.

García has also produced other space-themed augmented reality videos, including one showing off a mini-moon landing in a kitchen.

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Miriam Kramer

Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University in 2012, and she originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee. Follow Miriam on Twitter at @mirikramer.


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