In 1978, in a memorable scene of Star Wars, Princess Leyla appears in the form of hologram to Obi One Kenobi to ask for help against the Empire. Time has passed, technologies have evolved and we have arrived there too: to the holograms that teleport into space. It happened a few months ago, on October 8, but NASA has only said it now: the hologram of a surgeon, Josef Schmid, was teleported from ground to the International Space Station, which was 400 kilometers away, where he interacted with astronauts. With the doctor there were also the head of the virtual reality startup that had made the technology available (Aexa Aerospace), and a couple of collaborators who naturally photographed themselves aboard the Space Station even though they were on the ground at the time.
The photo of the smile I’ve never taken
by Riccardo Luna
The phenomenon has a precise name: holoportation, the union of the words hologram and teleportation, teleportation, and it is not an absolute novelty. Ten years ago at the Coachella festival she appeared the hologram about a rapper who was killed long before he was able to duet with Snoop Dogg. And more recently Microsoft has demonstrated one technology able to make people appear in the same room during smart working meetings.
The 3D printed beehive house with earth
by Riccardo Luna
What is happening however is that these systems are becoming more and more easy, realistic and cheap. It is an interesting perspective: it is not we who enter the metaverse, in a virtual reality; but it is our hologram that lives in the physical world. The boundary between the two dimensions will be less and less perceptible.