Astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent 340 days in space, gives the HoloLens his stamp of approval

Even Scott Kelly — a NASA astronaut who just returned to Earth after 340 days on the International Space Station — is on board with augmented reality.

Kelly tested out the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality device, on the Space Station, and he seems pretty into it.

"I think that virtual reality has a lot of potential," Kelly said during a press conference Friday.

"It [the HoloLens] worked great. I was really surprised. We messed around with it for, like, two hours, and immediately, I sensed, this is a capability we could use right now." Read more...