{"id":138337,"date":"2022-04-19T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/nasa-beamed-a-doctor-to-the-iss-in-a-world-first-holoportation-achievement"},"modified":"2022-04-19T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T23:02:55","slug":"nasa-beamed-a-doctor-to-the-iss-in-a-world-first-holoportation-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/nasa-beamed-a-doctor-to-the-iss-in-a-world-first-holoportation-achievement","title":{"rendered":"NASA Beamed a Doctor to The ISS in a World-First \u2018Holoportation\u2019 Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-beamed-a-doctor-to-the-iss-in-a-world-first-holoportation-achievement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s never been a house call quite like this. In a first for telepresence communication, a NASA flight surgeon was \u2018holoported\u2019 to the International Space Station (ISS), appearing and conversing as a virtual presence in real time, hundreds of miles above the surface of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds like <em>Star Trek<\/em>, you\u2019re not too far off. (after all, <em><\/em><em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> did feature an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Doctor_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)\">artificial physician who was a holographic projection<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/microsoft-s-new-holoportation-tech-lets-you-jump-into-someone-else-s-reality\">Microsoft\u2019s \u2018holoportation\u2019 technology<\/a>, which lets users interact with 3D representations of remote participants in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s never been a house call quite like this. In a first for telepresence communication, a NASA flight surgeon was \u2018holoported\u2019 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\u2019re not too far [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}