Just after Meta demoed the latest version of its augmented reality headset, Microsoft was not one to be upstaged. HoloLens developer Alex Kipman took to the floor of the TED2016 conference to virtually teleport a NASA onto the stage of the event, while simultaneously projecting him onto the surface of Mars.
At the auditorium in Vancouver, NASA’s Jeff Norris, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, appeared on stage. Though Norris was physically across the street from the event, Kipman could see, through his mixed reality headset, a “hologram” of Norris walking and talking in front of him and, beneath his feet, the surface of the Red Planet.…
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