TIS Weekly (#47): Moonshots; Space and Beyond

[May 1st, 2016]

Over the years, some have complained that ever since the Apollo project no other projects of the same impact and imagination have been launched. At the time, the Apollo project was called Moonshot since the aim was to literally bring humans to the moon. The last few years however, the term Moonshot is back. Not the government, but commercial companies and other organisations are formulating ambitious goals and competitions to reach them, ranging from AI to self driving cars. And again space. So we figured, why not share the best videos about space in the coming month?!

SPACE 
Experience SpaceX

Last month, we focused on Virtual Reality (and we included Augmented Reality and 360 videos as well). The video of the landing of the SpaceX rocket is a great combination of this theme and the new theme. Make sure you watch it with your VR goggles on or use a Chrome Browser!

VR 
Fake Food

It might look very intergalactic, but Project Nourished is about VR and Food. The aim of this project is to virtualize ones eating and drinking experience by tricking all senses in believing actual food and beverages are consumed. Instead, one is fed a 3D printed substance or plain water.

Health 
OSCAR, the modular body

Our Health special triggered Jurriaan van Rijswijk from Games for Health Europe into sharing some of his favorite videos. Like the video about OSCAR, the modular body. In this video, a living organism built from human cells is shown. It is modular with clickable organs and it moves!

OK that’s it for this week, friends of innovation. Keep on submitting, keep on voting, keep on innovating. Questions? Remarks? Ideas? hello@tis.tv is the address! From TIS with love, Erwin Blom.