HONG KONG: After announcing NASA as a HoloLens partner at its Windows 10 launch event back in January, Microsoft MSFT -2.03% revealed genuine plans to send its AR headset into space last week.
“Sidekick uses Microsoft HoloLens to provide virtual aid to astronauts working off the Earth, for the Earth. A pair of the devices is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s seventh commercial resupply mission to the station on June 28,” read an official press release.
However, the HoloLens headsets loaded onto to the Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7) mission, never reached the International Space Station. The rocket suffered, according to NASA’s Twitter TWTR -2.98% account, “an anomaly”.
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