This Is What a Real-Life Holosuite Will Look Like

[The Morrigan]

Ahhhhhhhhhh, yes. Never been so pleased to live in the future.

 

[klausaidon]

Holosuites will not exist for a long while yet. Despite the name the "Holotech" of Star Trek relied as much on replicator, transporter, and force field technology to function as it did on holograms. That's why it was so realistic, as they pointed out it was for all intents and purposes real, as the computer was actually creating the things being interacted with and using transporters to move people and objects around to create the illusion of space. This is also why when the safety protocols were off, people could actually die, because unless it was being told to simulate something and pull the punches, the computer would pretty much create an actual gun to have a construct shoot someone with.

Now this lead to questions about whether actual lifeforms could be created on the Holodeck, and the answer is "yes". However given that the materials are being designed to be temporary and held together by the systems there, a lifeform can't really exist without those very same systems. It's not creating and destroying clones for example.

We're far more likely to get the same basic effect through neural interface long before we're likely to totally conquer matter and energy to the point of being able to do somthing like that. Of course given that the human brain is such serious business and the potential for people to be hurt or killed, I honestly have my doubts if the area is going to be looked into seriously. It would pretty much require a mengela-type figure with no regard for human life to do the nessicary experiments to develop this kind of technology. Even then once the basics existed I'm not sure if companies would ever release anything that worked directly in or on the brain as a consumer product to the lowest human denominator. The potential for liability would be too great. Shut off a video game suddenly you might corrupt data, shut off a game involving the human brain suddenly and you might do serious brain damage or cause psychological issues.

It's noteworthy that most of the works involving such technology involve "dark future" scenarios where society has collapsed, goverments are powerless, and human life is stupidly cheap. In most worlds where such tech exists, you have corperations who can peddle such tech because nobody can hold them accountable for problems their products might cause, or the danger they might present to a consumer. I mean in a world where some guy can walk on down to the local mall, and have himself wired into a bionic killing machine, and you need body armor and military grade weapons just to survive a two block jaunt, convential reality has ceased to apply to the point where people are beyond caring if Jr. might scortch his brain playing video games. Heck... in such worlds for all we know that's where the flesh eating psycho zombies that live in the sewers and periodically raid the surface for food actually came from.

I think you might be over thinking this just a little bit.

 

[Racecarlock]

I've thought of something like this. Only it was an X-wing cockpit running a star wars flight sim with display screens replacing the windows.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I hope someone called Yahtzee. He did ask us to if anything like this came about.

Which episode (or article) was that? It sounds familiar, but I can't think which one.

 

[rickthetrick]

It's all fun and games till one becomes self aware and cooks the inhabitant.

OT: can you imagine the seizures these things will cause?

 

[Therumancer]

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I think you might be over thinking this just a little bit.

Doubtlessly. Apologies, I have a tendency to do that.

 

[Knife-28]

I think I can speak for all of us when I say;

 

[ckam]

If it gets me into the same room as Hatsune Miku, then I'll be content.

 

[Canid117]

The question is inevitable. When can we have sex with it?

 

[Live4Lotus]

Meh...suffers from the same issue as Kinekt...no force feedback. You would think that such an expensive bubble would at least be able to offer rumble feedback. Then again, maybe it is built really poorly and it would make lots of annoying noise if it had rumble or if you turn up the bass.

The question is inevitable. When can we have sex with it?

Hopefully not while it is limited to airports.

 

[GeorgW]

Without actually being able to feel the objects in there, it's worthless! Wait until I get out of school and I'll install an neuro-interface that tricks you into believing you can actually touch the stuff. Also, it needs to rotate so you can walk for miles uninterrupted.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Yes but does it use force-fields neutrons and associated techno-babble to make the holograms solid? No, then its not sci-fi enough. We need more SCIENCE!!

It looks pretty cool but will probably be very expensive. I'm not sure how good of a business venture it will be if it costs an arm and a leg to make one.

 

[Live4Lotus]

I remember back in the '90s...there was some terrible movie...it might have been hologram man or Johnny Mnemonic or something else...but they had neural headsets that were a bit larger than 3D glasses, and provided full sensation of movement while you sit in a chair...that is what I am waiting for...seems a whole lot more practical for home use than some giant, expensive booth.

{edit}
I remembered...it was the Lawnmower Man.

 

[Baldr]

It not so much a Holo-deck as it is a almost spherical television.

 

[Dudly]

okay the first topic to lure me out of the shadows its just so sad that somebody invented something like this just so it could be used for conference calls seriusly come on okay yes if it catches on there will be more uses for it but still come on conference calls whats next whe invent zero g laser powerd toaster ovens to make toast okay back to the shadows

 

[Alar]

World's most expensive TV and sound system!

 

[vxicepickxv]

What the f... They intended this for WORK? Are they insane?

Nope. I can see many practical applications for something like this.

Motion detecting, 360 degree field of vision, and I can imagine the possibility for two way communication. I think it could be useful for EOD teams and other areas where radiation or other hazards make it too dangerous for people to enter.

 

[Spoon E11]

http://arch.nau.coop/#/future-design/immersive-cocoon/Cocoon_04

damn i wanna play halo in there