• The University of Western Ontario has achieved the first international holographic teleportation

• The team is studying how this futuristic technology can be used in the real world.

• Although technology can transport a person’s image across borders, it still cannot interact with touch.

What looked like something out of a certain Star Wars or Star Trek saga finally happened in a meeting room on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, Canada: a holographic teleportation, also called a holoportation, that i.e. a combination of hologram and teleportation. , that is, when a hologram of a person or object is instantly transmitted to another location.

The alleged teleportation took place on the afternoon of July 27, when a small group of students from the Western Institute for Space Exploration (Western Space) gathered to witness and participate in what they believe to be the first international demonstration of a holoport.

“We had the incredible opportunity to demonstrate the world’s first two-way holographic teleportation. We flew a person from Alabama (USA) to London, Ontario (Canada),” said Sirek, co-founder of Leap Biosystem, the lead company on the project.

The team, made up largely of undergraduates and medical students, is exploring how this futuristic technology can be used in the real world. Whether it’s people communicating or providing medical assistance and care in remote areas. Although the technology can transmit a person’s image across borders, it still cannot interact with touch, which is an important part of a medical examination.

The technology involves a special camera, which creates a holographic image of a subject, which is then sent to a destination of your choice. The user on the other end wears a device called a hololent, much like VR gaming headsets. Through the hololent, the individual can see the subject in its environment. If both wear the accessory, they can interact in their environment as if they were really close.