{"id":19423,"date":"2016-03-30T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/microsoft-and-nasa-team-up-to-create-virtual-mars-tour-with-hololens\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T22:22:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:22:55","slug":"microsoft-and-nasa-team-up-to-create-virtual-mars-tour-with-hololens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/microsoft-and-nasa-team-up-to-create-virtual-mars-tour-with-hololens\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and NASA team up to create virtual Mars tour with HoloLens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240795\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240795 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-mars-630x380.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Curiosity and Erisa Hines in HoloLens\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-mars-630x380.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-mars-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-mars-1240x747.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-mars.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-240795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erisa Hines, a driver for the Mars Curiosity rover, talks to participants during the \u201cDestination: Mars\u201d mixed-reality tour. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ Microsoft)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft and NASA are bringing HoloLens to the masses&nbsp;\u2013 and bringing the masses to Mars&nbsp;\u2013 with a&nbsp;mixed-reality experience that will make its debut this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDestination: Mars,\u201d an exhibit opening at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida this summer, takes regular folks on a virtual guided tour to sites visited by the Curiosity rover on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin serves as one of the \u201cholographic tour guides,\u201d along with Curiosity rover driver Erisa Hines of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience lets the public explore Mars in an entirely new way,\u201d&nbsp;JPL visualization producer&nbsp;Doug Ellison said today in a news release. \u201cTo walk through the exact landscape that Curiosity is roving across puts its achievements and discoveries into beautiful context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Mixed-Reality Tech Brings Mars to Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPOCcG33mJQ?list=PLTiv_XWHnOZpzQKYC6nLf6M9AuBbng_O8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When users put on the Microsoft HoloLens headsets, they\u2019ll see a 3-D view of the Martian landscape that shifts and rotates as they turn their heads. They\u2019ll even be able to walk through the scene, as if they were walking on Mars. (The technology represents the payoff on a vision of interplanetary telepresence&nbsp;I was gushing about a dozen years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDestination: Mars\u201d is an adaptation of OnSight, a 3-D visualization tool that was co-developed by Microsoft and JPL to help Curiosity\u2019s scientists navigate the Martian landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Mars isn\u2019t the only destination being laid out for HoloLens exploration: JPL is working on mixed-reality applications that astronauts can used on the International Space Station, and that engineers can use as they design and assemble spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The station\u2019s astronauts gave HoloLens headsets their first in-space tryouts over the past couple of months, during Scott Kelly\u2019s nearly yearlong stint in orbit. After his return to Earth, Kelly said mixed-reality technology \u201chas great potential for applications, not only in space but of course on Earth as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_240802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240802\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-240802\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-aldrin-630x497.jpg\" alt=\"Buzz Aldrin in HoloLens Mars experience\" width=\"630\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-aldrin-630x497.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-aldrin-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-aldrin-1240x978.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160330-aldrin.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-240802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldin serves as a \u201cholographic tour guide\u201d in the HoloLens mixed-reality experience called \u201cDestination: Mars.\u201d (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ Microsoft)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mixed-reality technology, also known as augmented reality, involves blending computer-generated imagery with real-life scenes in the user\u2019s view. Technically speaking, it\u2019s different from virtual reality, an immersive 3-D experience that\u2019s independent of the user\u2019s real-life environment.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is also working with technology partners to create virtual-reality Mars experiences. One such project is \u201cThe Mars 2030 Experience,\u201d the result of a NASA partnership with Fusion VR, NVIDIA and MIT\u2019s Space Systems Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMars 2030\u201d lets users explore a simulated 3-D environment on the Red Planet, as if they were immersed in a virtual movie set for \u201cThe Martian.\u201d The project made its debut this month at the South By Southwest festival&nbsp;in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Developers say they\u2019ll soon make free demo versions of \u201cMars 2030\u201d&nbsp;available for Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, Samsung VR Gear, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive, via Valve\u2019s Steam marketplace and on Fusion.net. You\u2019ll also be able to find it on iTunes (for Apple iOS) and Google Play (for Android). Twitch.tv will offer a streaming-video version of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Valve, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., has been demonstrating its own&nbsp;Mars VR environment for HTC Vive.&nbsp;It recently gathered imagery from the cockpit of the space shuttle trainer at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight for a future VR application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erisa Hines, a driver for the Mars Curiosity rover, talks to participants during the \u201cDestination: Mars\u201d mixed-reality tour. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ Microsoft) Microsoft and NASA are bringing HoloLens to the masses&nbsp;\u2013 and bringing the masses to Mars&nbsp;\u2013 with a&nbsp;mixed-reality experience that will make its debut this summer. \u201cDestination: Mars,\u201d an exhibit opening at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4892,2927,5025,367,4017,4917,190],"class_list":["post-19423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-augmented-reality","tag-curiosity","tag-hololens","tag-mars","tag-microsoft","tag-mixed-reality","tag-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}