As NASA will use Microsoft HoloLens for Mars exploration?

At the time of the announcement new augmented reality glasses from Microsoft developers have stated that the system will be used by NASA to improve the efficiency of studying Mars. As scientists are going to use the device, and why for Mars exploration?

Now this point is more or less clear: the combined team of NASA and Microsoft to create специальную software platform OnSight . This project has already started to be realized by the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA.

The software will process the data coming from the rover Curiosity so that scientists with glasses HoloLens be able to see a stereoscopic image of the Martian surface, similar to the landscape, which "sees" the rover. According to experts, this virtual reality will help scientists directly see everything that shows Curiosity, and the images will be optimized so that the man felt himself to be in that place, which is now shown in the glasses.

Scientists will see Mars as well as they would have seen it if it were themselves on the Red Planet. It can improve the efficiency of the team Curiosity. In addition, the rover "teach" to understand the gestures that will be used by scientists, will be the ability to "manually" mark on the image of Mars places that specialists would like to learn more. Curiosity team will jointly inspect the interesting places on Mars, realizing thus teamwork glasses HoloLens.

The images that scientists will be able to see the glasses will have plotted the data on the distances, sizes, some properties of the objects visible in the photo.

System OnSight, according to the plans should be ready by the end of 2015, at the same time and it will start active testing.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/244746/