Whenever holograms are mentioned in sci-fi movies and series, they seem to belong to a very distant reality, but that could soon change. In July, researchers at Western University in Canada combined technology from a special camera and Microsoft’s augmented reality headset, the HoloLens, and successfully generated what has been cited as the world’s first teleportation experiment. holographic, the so-called holoport. .

The transport was carried out between the cities of Huntsville, in the American state of Alabama, and London, in the Canadian state of Ontario. The camera was responsible for capturing the image of the person that would be transformed into a hologram on the HoloLens from a receiver at a different destination than the generated image.

The objective of this innovation is to study how this type of technology can bring convenience to people’s daily lives, such as providing more precise medical care at a distance. This type of teleconsultation would facilitate the diagnosis of people who find themselves in environments that are difficult to access.. The researchers intend to combine the HoloLens with biosensors capable of monitoring, for example, heart rate and oxygen saturation.

Anyway, this type of transmission still has limitations for medicine, since it does not guarantee the most important thing for some cases, which is touch. But it can still facilitate many types of queries.

Currently, the technology costs more than US$5,000 (approximately R$25,500), but in a well-designed project, it could bring good savings to the health systems of the countries where it is implemented. Microsoft released the first model of HoloLens in 2015 and its successor, HoloLens 2, in 2019.

And you, what did you think of the invention? Do you believe that holograms will be a trend in teleconsultations? Leave your comment!