holodeck

Definitions

A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.

Examples

“[…] the fact that science-fiction film, and indeed much — if not most — contemporary film, has become⟳ a technology on the way to somewhere else, whether that goal turns out to be immersive, interactive, or some holodeck-style fusion of the two.”

“Computer music might someday replace⟳ acoustic music made by human beings, but that time is far away, waiting either for Holodecks to be perfected or for a generation of listeners to arrive⟳ who are too busy and too uninvolved with their ambient surroundings to want⟳ to relate⟳ to them[.]”

“Building a holodeck will require⟳ breakthroughs in sensors, robotics, and mechanical interfaces […]”

“In such a world, would one want⟳ to be hooked up to a pleasure machine or live⟳ on a holodeck?”

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