Connected with Family through Hololens

There is a great deal of interest from national space agencies to go to the Moon and Mars. ESA wants to go to the Moon and establish a village there. NASA wants to go to Mars. Astronauts and Cosmonauts from all over the world are already living aboard the ISS. What can they do in their free time? It can’t be all about reading books or game play on computers. Think of new sports or games that could take into account the low gravity (e.g. a space lacrosse game, extreme basketball). What about real or virtual experiences involving the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon? Or following the paths of Sojourner, Spirit or Curiosity on Mars using a form of cross-country skiing? Think of new ways for to astronauts to use their free time. To present your results develop an app that makes use of virtual reality tools.

Our project named Connected with Family through Hololens is developed for NASA Space App Challenge 2016. Android platform is used here. We will try to help astronauts to connect with their family which is our main theme. We come up with this idea because when an astronaut goes for a mission, he or she has to be remain apart from his/her family for a long term. As we all know, the affection of family has a great impact on us. In a mission, an astronaut may apart from his/her family physically but misses his/her family a lot. As a result, He/she may feel low or he/she may experience with less self-esteem. Also he/she may lack of self confidence. It may affect his work and mission.

When astronauts will be upset or feeling bore and lonely, they will meet with their family members and friends which will come from our app. We will use Hololens here. When an astronaut wears the glass, he/she will find three options in 3D screen through the Hololens. One is Game, and others are Videos and Beats.

First one is Games which is for recreation and when they pass their levels there will be many surprises for them like secret videos, photos, speeches for cheers up and so on which will be made by their family members and friends. It will help to inspire them.

Second part is Default videos. They can watch it anytime they want and in special occasion like birthday, anniversary and some videos will be shown that automatically help them to remind memories.

The last one is Beats which will control brain waves. We know our brain continuously emits brain waves. When it cannot emit freely, it starts headache and many more problems come out. Our idea is to generate external waves to reduce brain waves quantity to normal. We will generate Beta, Delta, Gamma, Alpha, Theta beats to control our brain waves. It will enter in our brain through ear pods. It can control anger, emotion and can create sleeping environment.

So our solution is to let an astronaut to be sound mentally which will let him/her to be sound physically. It will let him/her to be self confident enough to make the job well done and mission successful.

Last but not the least, this project not only helps astronauts but also general people. General people will also be benefited, especially who works in defense and children in boarding school.

Android Studio for app development,

Hololens for 3D projection,

Youtube for uploading project video,

Prezi for making presentation slides,

Github for uploading source code,

Camtasia Studio for making the Video of the overall idea of the project.