Star Trek holodeck gets closer to reality

An outfit which is experimenting with using huge high definition tellies to simulate a 3d virtual environment, thinks that it is getting closer to creating a Star Trek style holodeck.

Holodek’s test site has 42 gaming stations with PCs and high definition screens ranging in size from 17 inches (43cm) to 20 feet wide and 12 feet high.

However it has also built something called the sphere, which is 20 feet in diameter and eventually will offer a 360° view. It works a bit like a flight simulator.

Fewls, don't they realise that if something ever went wrong on a Starship, it was usually as a direct result of a sodded up holodeck. The Enterprise and Voyager would have had far less problems if they had pulled the plug on the thing.