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SINCE EARLY MAN (CIRCA 1990) FIRST STARTED WEARING VR GOGGLES, THE GOAL HAS BEEN SIMPLE: HOW IT WORKS FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT Having spent my professional life explaining mechanical concepts to our readers -- as well as staff, friends, neighbors, family members, and folks who come up to me when I'm at the local home center -- and having received instructions from experts in return, I can tell you that this new HoloLens from Microsoft fills in the crucial missing links that occur when you're trying to explain something complicated to somebody. Roy Berendsohn [Photograph]: With HoloLens, NASA geologists can explore the surface of Mars from their offices on Earth.EMPTY [Photograph]: Alex Kipman's sabbatical to off-the-grid Brazil led to Xbox Kinect -- a Breakthrough winner in 2009 -- and now HoloLens.EMPTY