Doctors in holograms beamed to space to visit astronauts.
NASA has revealed in a new post that a team of doctors hologram was to visit astronauts living aboard the International Space Station. The first humans to ever be hologramported from Earth to space was led by NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid and Fernando De La Pe.
It is a brand-new way of human exploration, where our human entity is able to travel off the planet. Our physical body is not there, but our human entity is.
In the image above, Schmid can be seen greeting the astronauts in space with a well-known space greeting, the Vulcan salute from Star Trek.
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The astronauts can come back three minutes or three weeks later if the system is running and the space station is traveling at 17,500 mph.
The medical teams were at the station. Thomas Pesquet, who was on board the station at that time, had a conversation with the teams of De La Pena and Schmid. The holograms of the doctors were visible in the middle of the space station.
How did it work?
Theholoportation technology that enabled this event works using specialized image capture technology that reconstructs, compress and transmit live 3D models of people. This technology combines with the HoloLens, a self-proclaimed mixed reality headset that combines sensors, optics and hologram processing tech to allow the wearer to see hologram images or even enter a virtual world.
Users can see hologram participants, but can also hear and interact with them with the two systems combined. The technology has never been used in an environment like this where users are so far apart.
This new form of communication is a way for NASA to use holograms on future space missions. The agency plans to send a hologram of astronauts in space to Earth in addition to sending a hologram of Earth-bound users to space.
We will use this for our private medical conferences, private psychiatric conferences, private family conferences and to bring people onto the space station to see astronauts, according to NASA officials.
NASA wants to use hologram communication from Earth to space for tele-mentoring.
Imagine if you could bring the best instructor or the actual designer of a particularly complex technology right beside you wherever you were working on it.
We will combine augmented reality with Haptics. You can work on the device together, like two of the best surgeons working during an operation. Everyone would be reassured that the best team is working together on a critical piece of hardware.
NASA says that hologram technology in space could be far-reaching. The tech could support everything from advanced medical treatment, mission support or even to connect astronauts with their families back on Earth. The tech could prove useful for future crewed deep-space travel to destinations like Mars, where we know astronauts will face significant communication challenges and delays.
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