NASA uses holoportation to send a surgeon in Space
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) sends a doctor into Space through a technology called holoportation.
What is holoportation?
Holoportation is a 3D technology that allows 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time.
NASA has sent a surgeon into space virtually. He is the first person to be sent to Space from the Earth.
The process of holoportation
NASA’s flight surgeon, Dr Josef Schmid is sent to space. He is an industrial partner of AEXA Aerospace. Dr Schmid and his team are the first group of people to visit space through holoportation.
The users can see and listen to the virtual participants in 3D. They can also work and talk with them like the people are fully present in the same place.
Microsoft and holoportation
Microsoft is working with holoportation since 2016. It is the first time that it has been deployed in space.
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet used a Microsoft Hololens Kinect camera and computer with AEXA’s customised software and communicated with live images of Dr Schmid and his teammate De La Pena. At that time, they were located in the middle of the International Space Station.
According to NASA, the astronauts can return back in 3 minutes or 3 weeks and with this program, we’ll be living in the space station.
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