NASA used “holographic transmission” communication technology to send flying surgeon Dr. Joseph Schmid and his team “to space” to visit astronauts living on the International Space Station, while The doctor and his team were still on Earth, the first humans to be “holographically teleported” from Earth to space.
Recently Canadian scientists achieved the first international holographic teleportation – a person was transmitted as a hologram from Alabama, USA to Ontario, Canada, and the holograms of the rest of the team were transmitted to Huntsville, Alabama.
Holographic teleportation is a combination of hologram and teleportation that allows a hologram of a person or object to be transmitted to another location, somewhat similar to the kind of full-body projection we see in movies. Specifically, first to create a hologram of a person or object, the receiving end of the user to bring a holographic lens will be able to see the transmitted hologram, if both people bring a holographic lens and send their hologram, two people can interact in virtual reality, such as the most basic handshake, of course, this is no sensory tactile sensation, only virtual.
The more important players in this demonstration are the holographic lens and a specific software program developed by Houston’s Aexa Aerospace, the former being Microsoft’s mixed reality glasses product, HoloLens. The platform allows people in different physical locations to collaborate and share virtual images and even holographic projections through different types of devices, projecting the most realistic version of themselves in the MR world to communicate with people.
Researchers on the project say the technology costs about $5,000 ($33,809.50), but could save most of the cost of medical care and has great promise in the medical field. But at the same time, they also said, the technology does not currently have a sense of touch, which is a more important part of the medical examination. The researchers said they will add haptic sensors in the future, adding a variety of monitoring sensors (heart, blood oxygen, etc.) to enhance the connection between HoloLens customers.
The October 2021 holographic transmission, NASA said in a statement, “We will use it for our private medical sessions, private psychiatric sessions, private family sessions, and to bring VIPs to the International Space Station to visit with astronauts.” NASA also said the technology could help provide astronauts with extraterrestrial telemedicine, ISS construction projects, and even benefit future deep space exploration.
