NASA plans to work with Osterhout to design augmented reality glasses to help astronauts solve problems

According to Bloomberg, NASA plans to work with Osterhout to design an augmented reality pair to guide astronauts through the big and small combat problems and prepare for a space simulation experiment by the end of the year. If the astronauts encounter any difficult diseases, then the ground engineers will transfer the solution to the glasses, so that, even if the astronauts encounter any emergency, no way to find information, can also be resolved quickly.

Sean Carter, NASA's strategic partner manager at the Johnson Space Center, said:

"We understand that this technology is at the forefront of technology," he said. The farther away the pace of space exploration is from the Earth, the more important it becomes. ”
Last year, NASA launched a research and development work on wearable accessories and contacted Google. But in January, according to Carter, Google still put its strategic direction on commercial use, saying it needed to focus more on consumers.

NASA, who touched rebuff, eventually turned its target to Osterhout, a toy maker. , the latter is now dedicated to the supply of electronic components to the Government, widely used in the military field, and the current manufacturing of this smart helmet R6, is to provide information guidance and related solutions for the military equipment.

Osterhout's chief operating officer, Pete Jameson, said

"Smart helmets can give users guidance, provide relevant information, and provide lists." Of course, users can also have a normal view. ”

In July 2011, the US space shuttle Atlantis carried two iphone 4 mobile phones into space and went to the International Space Station for a space test experiment. The mobile phone has an American Odyssey space Research Laboratory dedicated to space flight development, "Sapcelab", which provides astronauts with IPhone4 's camera to capture the ground's coastline to automatically identify astronauts ' positions in space. At the same time, IPhone4 also has an electronic version of the astronaut experimental instructions to facilitate astronauts in carrying out space experiments without having to rummage through the voluminous print editions.

But now, astronauts need more than just mobile phones, but computers. For example, if a signal is sent on Mars, it may take 20 minutes to reach the Earth, not to mention the transmission of signals on the farther planet. In the increasingly complex space capsule environment, speech recognition and object recognition are all the more important, and in order to overcome the 0 gravity factor. NASA also needs to work on the hardware.

Carter said he would be able to get feedback from astronauts and crew members by the end of the year, and the company hopes to push the project forward.

Via Bloomberg & Cnbeta

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