WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED:
- NASA “holoported” a flight surgeon to the International Space Station (ISS).
- Holoportation is a “3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real-time.”
- While holoportation is a big step forward for space exploration, it could also be used to “bring people together” here on Earth.
NASA pushed telemedicine to a different level, after a successful operation where a flight surgeon was “holoported” to the International Space Station (ISS). Josef Schmid was holoported from Earth into outer space using a Microsoft HoloLens Kinect camera and a personal computer with an AEXA Aerospace software.
Holoportation is described as a “3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real-time.” When combined with Microsoft HoloLens, this permits a person to see, hear, and interact in 3D with others from a distance. It would be as if the person is in the same room.
“Our physical body is not there, but our human entity absolutely is there. It doesn’t matter that the space station is traveling 17,500 mph and in constant motion in orbit 250 miles above Earth, the astronaut can come back three minutes or three weeks later and with the system running, we will be there in that spot, live on the space station,” he said in a statement.
Microsoft introduced holoportation in 2016 and the technology has been used before, but this is the first time holoportation was used in an extreme and remote environment such as outer space.
This success is a milestone for future missions. There are different projects lined up after this holoportation operation, including one that permits a two-way communication, where someone on Earth can be holoported to space and, at the same time, astronauts can be holoported back on Earth.
“Imagine you can bring the best instructor or the actual designer of a particularly complex technology right beside you wherever you might be working on it.,” said Schmid.
Holoportation could also be used here on the planet. It ican potentially “help people to communicate, bringing people together no matter the distance or environmental challenges.” This could be used in a distant location: in Antarctica, for example.
The next biggest challenge for holoportation is Mars exploration since there are communication lags of up to 20 minutes each way. This lag is reported in different mediums of communication, whether it’s through radio transmission, video streams, or newer methods such as holoportation. So, for holoportation to be 100% effective, there has to be an approach that sidesteps that problem.
Source: The Hill
NASA is nothing but a huge scam, ripping off the American taxpayers for 20 billion dollars annually. They can basically make any claim they want to because it is impossible for anyone to verify they did it.
They have done what they say they have done. They frequently talk things up to assure support, but that does not extend to fantasy.
However, their usual processes and favored contractors tend to be very inefficient, wasteful, possibly corrupt – like all government, and for that matter, most other people that have the opportunity and are spending someone else’s money,
Less spending would be nice, but as wasteful as NASA may be, they’re a drop in the bucket. Handouts to keep losers alive cost FAR more, and there is NO upside to live losers (if you think there is, sponsor the ones you care about, i.e. put up or shut up) unless they stop being losers and start paying more than they cost.
Jake, you greatly underestimate the capability of the US government. NASA has problems, but I personally have friends who have worked at NASA in various capacities, and though it is a very wasteful and poorly managed organization, it is not pulling a bunch of hoaxes on the American people. NASA is not effective enough to accomplish such a hoax, especially over the thousands of technical people who work there, and those I know who would never be a part of any such hoax. The bigger hoax is that being pushed that the earth is flat, that no one has orbited the earth, etc. I am amazed that, with all the different evidences to a round earth, that the hoax has been so effective.
Jake, I meant “overestimate”. not “underestimate”. Sorry – it’s late and I’m tired…
Don’t try it with people! Remember The Fly!
“Computer, activate the Emergency Medical Hologram.”
“Please state the nature of the medical emergency.”