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03-05-2016, 06:49 AM
Astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent 340 days in space, gives the HoloLens his stamp of approval
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Even Scott Kelly — a NASA astronaut who just returned to Earth after 340 days on the International Space Station — is on board with augmented reality.
Kelly tested out the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) device, on the Space Station, and he seems pretty into it.
SEE ALSO: Astronaut shows off Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality in space (http://mashable.com/2016/02/21/augmented-reality-in-space/)
"I think that virtual reality has a lot of potential," Kelly said during a press conference Friday.
"It [the HoloLens] worked great. I was really surprised. We messed around with it for, like, two hours, and immediately, I sensed, this is a capability we could use right **w." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/04/nasa-astronaut-scott-kelly-hololens/)
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Even Scott Kelly — a NASA astronaut who just returned to Earth after 340 days on the International Space Station — is on board with augmented reality.
Kelly tested out the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) device, on the Space Station, and he seems pretty into it.
SEE ALSO: Astronaut shows off Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality in space (http://mashable.com/2016/02/21/augmented-reality-in-space/)
"I think that virtual reality has a lot of potential," Kelly said during a press conference Friday.
"It [the HoloLens] worked great. I was really surprised. We messed around with it for, like, two hours, and immediately, I sensed, this is a capability we could use right **w." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/04/nasa-astronaut-scott-kelly-hololens/)
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