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SvennoJ on 16 November 2016
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Zoombael said:
shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, I meant just a room that can project holograms, none of that fancy stuff from Star Trek like replicated odors, food, and water; environmental controls that can change the temperature of the air to match the program that's running and make it feel like the wind is blowing; force fields that give the characters physical form and give them the proper tactile feel and warmth; force field treadmills that prevent you from walking into the walls while the image projected on the walls is continually reprojected to make it seem like you can walk forever; etc. That fancy stuff will take alot longer, some of it might happen in my lifetime, but most will not unless we manage to master interstellar travel and meet some friendly aliens who give us a leg-up technologically xD

Simple, commerically available holographic rooms are predicted to be available as soon as 2024, though I personally think it might take longer which is why I said 2030's. Sony is already working on one supposedly.

Oh. You were referring to this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjJbK90zx0

What's the point of that if you're still wearing glasses to see 3D. Sure you can also plaster the walls with tv screens that don't require glasses yet that would be far too expensive for home use.

Lightweight self contained VR/AR glasses are the near future. Eye tracking and foveated rendering will bring the computing requirements down a lot, while mobile chips are getting more and more powerful. The only real bottleneck is battery tech. Still better to wear a portable battery in your pocket than always be tethered to a console or PC.

In a couple decades perhaps holographic projectors will be affordable and something like in the movie Her will become possible.

That would help with motion sickness and the aversion to wearing headsets. The best possible immersion will still be reserved to headsets though.

In the far far future I think a direct brain interface will still be easier than creating a star trek holodeck. At least until we have control of gravity, inertia and matter creation.