--- title: A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab | daily.dev description: A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game prototype that simulates the effects of special relativity through gameplay, allowing players to gradually... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab | daily.dev og:description: A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game prototype that simulates the effects of special relativity through gameplay, allowing players to gradually... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TaC7mSRiW.png og:image:alt: A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/TaC7mSRiW) # [A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab](https://api.daily.dev/r/TaC7mSRiW "Go to post") A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game prototype that simulates the effects of special relativity through gameplay, allowing players to gradually experience phenomena like the Doppler effect, time dilation, and Lorentz transformation. The game combines accessibility and a fantasy setting with theoretical and computational physics research. 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