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The Next Generation of Astronauts Will Use AR | SpaceAR
& I want to be one of them.
I’m extremely passionate about space!
And when I say extremely I don’t just mean I think stars are cool and the idea of space travel is dope. I mean: I want to be the next female Canadian astronaut, I want to go to Mars and beyond, and I want to disrupt the way we go about exploration on Earth and in space using exponential technologies.
As a result of this HUGE passion for space, I spend a ton of time thinking about ways we can make space travel next-level + solve really big problems in exploration.
Since I’m currently doing a focus (this just means I’m diving really deep into a certain technology area to learn a ton about it and get experience creating projects using it) mixed realities, specifically augmented reality (AR), I decided that AR can make space even cooler 🚀
So, I started to do some research to figure out if AR was already being used in space and I found a pdf created by NASA outlining what applications they would like to see in space.
Applications + case studies ranged from medical to logistical uses of AR in space and many more.
Designing a next-level space suit at a hackathon led to building an AR interface for astronaut helmets.
In TKS (The Knowledge Society — an accelerator/innovation program for youth aged 12–17 where we learn about exponential technologies and how to solve the world’s biggest problems using them), we had a hackathon where we were challenge to try and solve a big problem using exponential tech.
Lauren Yoshida (my lovely friend who is also a TKS innovator) and I decided that a BIG problem is that space suits need a ton of improvement.
In summary:
- They are hella expensive…
