Principal Investigator Patricia Maes
Project Website http://www.media.mit.edu/projects/the-blank-canvas/overview/
This is the first episode of 'The Blank Canvas', a Virtual Reality platform that showcases the future of science and scientific communication, today. So many of the brilliant contemporary innovations in science are lost to the general public because they happen at scales so small we can barely comprehend them. The Blank Canvas leverages the power of immersive technologies to make these ideas come to life in macro planetary scale, explaining themes like DNA editing, hacked viruses and CRISPR all in Magic School Bus style. We build collaborations between scientists and engineers for accurate, inspirational science storytelling that turns textbooks into experience.
The Blank Canvas directs immersion inwards, augmenting awareness of the microscopic worlds inside each of us and the science that is changing them today.