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 mile
, for the wearer to be able to perceive the remotely captured individual, who are filmed with a multiple-camera setup in their actual location.
In this case, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who was on board the ISS and wearing such a headset, had a two-way conversation with Schmid and members of his medical team, along with Fernando De La Pena Llaca, the CEO of AEXA Aerospace, which develops custom holoportation software .
Yet it's this exact kind of capability – bridging physical gaps to connect people over huge distances in space – that could be important for future space-exploration missions.
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