Practical Augmented Reality: A Guide to the Technologies, Applications, and Human Factors for AR and VR

Foreword

After months of electrical, mechanical, Zero-G, underwater, and network certification, we had finally launched two Microsoft HoloLens mixed-reality devices to the International Space Station (ISS). On the morning of February 20^th, 2016, our team, stationed at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control, successfully made the first holographic call to space. Astronaut Scott Kelly picked up and proceeded to take us on a tour of his home for the past year. At one point, he guided us to the cupola (observation module), slowly lowered the solar shields, and showed us the curvature of the Earth as it floated into our view. As if that was not enough, Scott then drew annotations on top of the various ISS modules and talked about their importance ...