Microsoft's Holoportation Device Lets You Virtually Teleport

Microsoft's "holoportation" device could radically change how you keep in touch with friends and family from afar.

Holoportation is a new type technology that lets you teleport a 3D image of yourself to anywhere in the world so you can talk and interact with whoever is on the other side.

The guy on the left is not actually in the room, but it's pretty hard to tell.

Here's how it works: Microsoft stationed several 3D cameras around a room that can capture a person from different angles. Those cameras work in conjunction with Microsoft's futuristic holographic goggles, the HoloLens, to composite them in real-time.

Once that reconstruction exists, it can be transported to anywhere in the world, where the other person can see it by wearing the HoloLens. Here we see Shahram Izadi, the research manager on the product, interact with a virtual rendering of his daughter who is located in a different room:

Pretty cool, eh? The HoloLens will ship to select developers on March 30. In addition to aiding in holoportation, it can insert you into video games and let you virtually tour cities.

Check out the full video for yourself:

Microsoft created a device that lets you 'teleport' anywhere in the world

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