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Monday, January 27, 2014

Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape

Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape - NYTimes.com: "Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are playing poker together.

No, this isn’t a bad physics joke. It’s a scene from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Advanced Micro Devices, the computer chip maker, has built a version of a holodeck that is shaped like a dome and is covered with wall-to-wall projectors.

It takes place in a holodeck, a simulated-reality room in the fictional Star Trek universe. The three scientists — or at least computer-generated versions of them — have been transported to the 2300s to play cards with Lt. Cmdr. Data."

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