United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) managed to send a team of doctors in the form of holograms to the International Space Station (ISS), which resembled a scene in a science fiction film.
The team of doctors were sent by a method they called holoportation or a combination of hologram and teleportation.
During the two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the growth of technology telemedicine and new ways of communicating have changed and developed.
In October 2021, NASA aeronautical surgeon Josef Schmid, industrial partner of AEXA Aerospace CEO Fernando De La Pena Llaca, and their team became the first humans to holoport from Earth into space.
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet had a live two-way conversation with Schmid and De La Pena amidst the ISS using a Microsoft Hololens Kinect camera and a computer equipped with special software from Aexa.
Reported from the official website NASAholoportation is a technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed, and instantly transmitted anywhere in real time.
Then when combined with the view mixed reality or mixed reality such as HoloLens, these allow users to see, hear, and interact with remote participants in 3D as if they were actually present in the same physical space.
Holoportation has been used since at least 2016 by Microsoft, but this is the first time the technology has been implemented in extreme and remote environments such as outer space.
“This is a completely new way of human communication across great distances,” said Schmid.
“Moreover, this is a new way of human exploration, in which our human entities can travel out of this planet,” he said.
“Our physical bodies are not there, but our human entities are absolutely there. No matter the space station is moving 17,500 miles per hour and in constant motion in orbit 250 miles above Earth, astronauts can come back three minutes or three weeks later and with the system running, we’ll be right there in that place, on the space station.”
NASA is demonstrating this new form of communication as a start for wider use in future space missions.
The next plan in implementing this technology is to use it for two-way communication, where people on Earth are holoported to space and astronauts to Earth.
“We will use this for our private medical conferences, private psychiatric conferences, private family conferences, and to take VIPs to the space station to visit astronauts,” said Schmid.
(lom / fea)
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