--- 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 --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@maxym** · 0 upvotes > the sort of game we need more of (but how come an MIT website doesn't have https ? my browser blocked the download of the game) --- Tags: [#unity](https://daily.dev/tags/unity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw"},"datePublished":"2024-05-13T13:12:11.644Z","dateModified":"2024-05-13T13:12:10.655Z","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...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5d8d0c6b2a3ceb62954a34aa7218c37a?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5d8d0c6b2a3ceb62954a34aa7218c37a?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"unity","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A Slower Speed of Light – MIT Game Lab"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-slower-speed-of-light-mit-game-lab-tac7msriw","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"the sort of game we need more of (but how come an MIT website doesn’t have https ? my browser blocked the download of the game)","datePublished":"2024-05-16T14:03:16.272Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/TaC7mSRiW#c-Urr1A5Yxe","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Maxx","url":"https://daily.dev/maxym","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--_XufsF_I--/f_auto/v1741599580/avatars/avatar_J12t3Jj2x"}}]} ```