How close are we to Holodeck technology?

[Oddish]

Dietary bad choices are a very reliable killer. Despite being a compulsive exerciser (I worked out 346 days in a row during the quarantine, twice a day in the summer) I'm 35 pounds overweight. Because my diet is a cardiologist's nightmare.

 

[Qonundrum]

Without replicator technology and tractor/pressor fields, can you make a TNG Holodeck?

People can be recreated and projected on a screen in real time, but that's nothing like TNG's holodeck. (Early season 1 described some of it with projection and the computer fooling the mind to compensate for being in a fairly confined space, and in reality the holodeck would be much larger than what's shown on screen. But the level of forcefields and heat generators and everything else so Riker could go all the way with minuet for less than a minute? That's stretching disbelief suspend-ability. )

True, after all there's also people who give themselves strokes (sometimes fatal) from excessive gaming. And a few months ago I read an article about a guy who died from eating excessive amounts of licorice. Licorice. Something in it caused his heart to stop iirc. But he ate like really huge amounts of it, and every day for a long time.

Too true, frighteningly:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bla...hythmia-adults-over-40-2017-10?r=US&IR=T&op=1
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-black-licorice-can-make-your-heart-jump/

When will someone invent broccoli sticks? Kale sticks? Asparagus sticks?

 

[Orphalesion]

Too true, frighteningly:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bla...hythmia-adults-over-40-2017-10?r=US&IR=T&op=1
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-black-licorice-can-make-your-heart-jump/

When will someone invent broccoli sticks? Kale sticks? Asparagus sticks?

Then again, to be fair. To paraphrase the Simpsons, Licorice tries to warn us of its deadliness with its terrible taste.

 

[Qonundrum]

Then again, to be fair. To paraphrase the Simpsons, Licorice tries to warn us of its deadliness with its terrible taste.

LOL. I love black licorice. Fear of diabetes kept me away from it. Of course, tie several pieces together and you'd get a sticky overpriced jump-rope...

 

[dupersuper]

Having a room with fully 3d holograms seems plausible. Being able to bang them seems much less so.

This is one of the few remaining areas in which I still believe that humanity will find a way.

Without replicator technology and tractor/pressor fields, can you make a TNG Holodeck?

Nope...so how close are we?

 

[Boris Skrbic]

About… 0.04077% there.

(Holos are the least of what a holodeck can manage by relying on ST’s rubber science; in retrospect, adaptive environment simulator might’ve been a better formalized designation.)

 

[Tim Thomason]

Having a room with fully 3d holograms seems plausible. Being able to bang them seems much less so.

Yeah, its probably way cheaper to just build sex robots with realistic 3D printed skin and hair that matches your desire that week.

And even cheaper is to just put on a hat that can finagle with your electrical signals and make you feel way better than any banging with anyone (or facsimile) could ever do.

 

[Timo]

...No doubt any virtual reality technology would benefit from the addition of feel-good substances or their electrical brain-tickler equivalents. And for all we know, the TAS and TNG holodecks indeed feature pleasant aerosols as a key ingredient.

Enough of those, and you can leave the virtual reality out of the picture altogether, of course.

But the Trek holodeck is first (DSC "Lethe"!) seen as a Starfleet combat training tool. It would be rather important for there to be a lethality aspect to it, then, to enhance the learning experience. As training proceeds, you need more and more of those survival skills you are in the process of learning...

Timo Saloniemi