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So Star Treck holodeck technology is real. Where would you go and what would you experience?
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jshackles
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I always thought the fictional Trek job of Holo-novel writer was an interesting premise, especially in a society where money didn't exist.
So, yes, you have the technology to make realistic-looking holograms. You have things like holo-imagers that can take 3D pictures of objects in real space. You have AI 3D image creation technology that can generate people or objects in a way that they seem convincingly real. Not only that, but you have... some level of scene generation "computer, I want you to create a town typical of France in the 1400s", which seems to work well enough for surface level stuff. The holodeck in Star Trek never seemed good with open-ended prompts like "Computer, tell me a bedtime story" that weren't already pre-programmed works.
But - someone has to put all the pieces together to actually make it a reality. In some ways, it's pretty similar to modern VR headsets where you have the ability to create things in a virtual 3D space and make them fairly realistic - but you still need a massive team of talent to make something worthwhile. So were holo-novelists in Trek really just creative storytellers (similar to modern day novelists) that also happened to know how to program holodecks? Instead of writing characters, you would actually have to program their motivations, dreams, and goals in addition to things like speech / accents / dress or costume. If you have more than a handful of characters, how do you stop the whole thing from going off the rails? With the user input it throws a wrench into the context. What happens if Dixon Hill actually shoots the girl in the doorway before the adventure starts? Do you have to write / program for that eventuality? How could any story possibly make sense if there are infinite outcomes?
And to answer OPs question, sex stuff.
So, yes, you have the technology to make realistic-looking holograms. You have things like holo-imagers that can take 3D pictures of objects in real space. You have AI 3D image creation technology that can generate people or objects in a way that they seem convincingly real. Not only that, but you have... some level of scene generation "computer, I want you to create a town typical of France in the 1400s", which seems to work well enough for surface level stuff. The holodeck in Star Trek never seemed good with open-ended prompts like "Computer, tell me a bedtime story" that weren't already pre-programmed works.
But - someone has to put all the pieces together to actually make it a reality. In some ways, it's pretty similar to modern VR headsets where you have the ability to create things in a virtual 3D space and make them fairly realistic - but you still need a massive team of talent to make something worthwhile. So were holo-novelists in Trek really just creative storytellers (similar to modern day novelists) that also happened to know how to program holodecks? Instead of writing characters, you would actually have to program their motivations, dreams, and goals in addition to things like speech / accents / dress or costume. If you have more than a handful of characters, how do you stop the whole thing from going off the rails? With the user input it throws a wrench into the context. What happens if Dixon Hill actually shoots the girl in the doorway before the adventure starts? Do you have to write / program for that eventuality? How could any story possibly make sense if there are infinite outcomes?
And to answer OPs question, sex stuff.
Husky
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I'd visit a bunch of historical settings. See prehistoric cro-magnons, Rome during the late republic, meet Socrates in Athens and attend a festival of Dionysus. I'd also want to visit much of interwar Europe, and travel the world around 1900. Then I'd start getting more fantastical, visit Jabba the Hutt's palace, the Shire, Pandora. Maybe spend time with Geralt and Dandelion. Then I'd start making my own places to explore. I guess what I'd want most is to be able to explore settings that either don't exist anymore, or don't exist in real life. I'd have the danger removed from these places (at least for myself, as a tourist), and just have a pleasant look around.
Badlucktroll
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Shadowplay1979
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we will achieve this all with ai within the next 5 years but sadly no one is working on the physical aspect of the holodeck...matter creation...not on a scale that matters anyway. This is the closest weve gotten so far and thats just the hologram aspect... https://www.lightfieldlab.com/
CrankyJay™
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Probably different period settings in bars, different concerts etc.
Bill S. Preston Esq.
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MikeM
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Preach my man.
Buggy Loop
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