The Hill By Shirin Ali
NASA says that a doctor was “holoported” to the International Space Station (ISS) last year, taking telemedicine to new heights.
Josef Schmid, NASA flight surgeon, was holoported from Earth into space in October last year using a Microsoft Hololens Kinect camera and a personal computer with custom software developed by AEXA Aerospace, an industry partner.
Holoportation is a type of capture technology that NASA says allows for high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted live anywhere in real time. When it’s combined with Microsoft’s Hololens, it allows users to see, hear and interact with people remotely in 3D — as if they were actually present in the same space.
Schmid described the technology as a brand-new way of human exploration…
