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welcome to what the future this week SpaceX makes history not once but twice your dream of becoming a Jedi Master becomes a step closer to virtual reality in a hotel room that picks you up at home on Monday SpaceX became the first company to launch a single orbital class rocket booster three times the Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California once it reached orbit the rocket delivered 64 small satellites for various companies and organizations now that's a record number for a us-based rocket the first stage landed safely on SpaceX is drone ship station in the Pacific Ocean now being able to reuse a rocket is key to Keylong Musk's vision for space travel he's trying to do it more frequently on less money the final version of the Falcon 9 called the block 5 is designed to be used 100 times this is the VR experience you're looking for engineers at Virginia Tech call this force push it gives those of us who haven't spent years training in a Jedi Temple the ability to manipulate faraway virtual objects now it's true we've seen this before in video games but do you notice anything different here these guys aren't holding controllers or wearing special gloves they're using their bare hands and it's not thanks to an unusually high amid a chlorine count the technology uses leap motion to track hand movements then the objects respond to the speed and magnitude of hand gestures in a way that's intuitive for the user Engineers built the environment and the force push interface in the Unity game engine they used an oculus rift cd14 display no word if they're working on jedi-like powers of persuasion next you don't need to see his identification okay you know how people say they don't want to spend a lot of money on a hotel room because they're never actually in the room well this one you'd never actually have to leave it's a concept for a self-driving hotel room because why I walk across the Golden Gate Bridge when you can see it from the comfort of your bed the idea comes from a Canadian design studio and it's pretty simple say you live in Seattle and you want to visit Los Angeles call the hotel room like you would a new bur and the room comes to your door and takes you to your destination it includes everything you'd expect a shower a desk a minibar you can even get your Amazon Prime deliveries through the roof if that service ever takes off now once you reach your destination the room would connect to a larger suite that's part of the company's hotel network the company says the hope is to improve inner city travel now again this is just a concept right now but let's face it anything that cuts down on check-ins lost luggage and flight delays is probably a win all right what makes you say what the future let us know in the comments if you enjoyed this video think about giving us a thumbs up and maybe share it with somebody who hasn't seen it that's gonna do it for this week I'm Andy Altmann thanks for watching