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    Default NASA Beamed a Doctor to The ISS in a World-First 'Holoportation' Achievement

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    There's never been a house call quite like this. In a first for telepresence communication, a NASA flight surgeon was 'holoported' to the International Space Station (ISS), appearing and conversing as a virtual presence in real time, hundreds of miles above the surface of Earth.


    If it sounds like Star Trek, you're not too far off. (After all, Star Trek: Voyager did feature an artificial physician who was a holographic projection.)

    But this isn't science fiction. When NASA flight surgeon Josef Schmid was beamed up to the ISS in October of last year, the illusion was made possible thanks to Microsoft's 'holoportation' technology, which lets users interact with 3D representations of remote participants in real time.

    "This is [a] completely new manner of human communication across vast distances," says Schmid. "It is a brand-new way of human exploration, where our human entity is able to travel off the planet."


    Teleportation will be next.

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    If he didn't start with 'Please state the nature of the medical emergency' he should be flushed out of the holoairlock

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