Army Wants Holodeck

CAVE based holodecks? Nah... bulky overkill.

Direct Retinal Scanning Displays are next since LCD's & CRT's can't cut it. RSD's can paint an entire field of view on your retina with unlimited theorectical resolution. Problem is that there's no commercially available blue or green lasers, just red.

As far as the Army goes... well... we don't need them. Armies are the pawns of their leaders and wars are initiated by bickering leaders with an imposed agenda. Leaders' with political differences would rather send millions to die for their causes rather than assassinate the opposition directly, destabilizing the regime, and risk retribution themselves (which is why "we" (rather they, our leaders) have outlawed assassination politics)

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In the article, they mention headsets.... {snip}

"The holodeck is the Holy Grail of the institute," Debevec said. "It will be a
next-generation virtual reality simulation technique that will make it possible for a
person to go into a room or put on a headset and really feel like they are in a
different place. They will be able to see, hear, touch and even smell everything.
The terrain or environment will be realistic, and eventually there will even be
other characters to interact with and teach and learn from."

But I think we will have it before the Army does and for a lot less money. Anyone see that HBO movie about the "Bradley" APC?

"shaking their pickles" hehe, that cracks me up

Saw some "Cave" movies on that site #18 shared.. the "cave" is a big BOX, complete with annoying boxy angles for the display.. doesn't that distort the view?

i want a holodeck so i can stare at killcreek's naked b00bies in 3-D!
:-)

This will only lead to a bunch of army guys getting dishonorably discharged. Once they hack in naked chixorz, tons of guys will be out in the middle of this room shaking their pickle at a hologram of Jennifer Love Hewitt. Boom, there goes our army. This must be some kind of machine developed by the commies! Those BASTARDS!

someone how I think the holodeck will the man kind's last invention...

Already done :)

http://www.gamespot.com/features/cave_quake2/index.html

http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/caveQuake/

Wrong 21. The only thing out of those that pr0n was a driving force for was the Net. It won't be a driving force for this Holodeck stuff, either. Think about it.. there is no trace(well, not that most other people would see) of you looking at pr0n on the 'net, but if you have a es.ee.ex. simulator in your living room people would know.

Thanks!

-Lex

A holodeck with force fields and holograms is obviously out of the question, it's not the computer graphical power, it is the physical technology to create that environment, hehe... but a virtual reality helmet with cool graphics is probably more along the lines of what will actually happen.

- Val (*my keyboard is starting to die*)

Why don't they just do it the old fashion way.. 20 hits of acid and a strobe light.. i guarantee that youll see some shit in 3d!

With the kinda money the army have, it might be possible
I would LOVE to see this, although it would take years to reach the consumer

who said war was all bad?

Yeah yeah .. BUT what framerate will it have? hehe

I bet the alpha 0.001 version will look like BattleTank on the Atari.

I wonder what that Colonel Grossman thinks about this....

I don't really see how this would be possible, there would have to be VR goggles or something.

I want a nanite compiler. Then everyone could bake themselves a god damn daikatana.

You know what? I think that they want to play the biggest Q3A game on the Earth just for bragging rights or it has something to do with that Seven of Nine chick. :)

Dang, I'm gonna go join the army!!

damn, i though, that's gonna take like 30 years or so.

there's a gam , i dunno the name, but it's almost completely ai.
you have to like control the lifes of some things.
like a tamagotchi, just bigger, better, a helluva lot of ai, and on pc.
the developers said, that they'd have a ai-holodeck (not knowing the difference between that and reality) in 10 years, but that was already 2 years ago.

ai holodeck in 8 years, but the 3d-graphix?
no!
meybe 20-30!

oh, and would you believe I haven't even seen The Matrix

am I the only one?
just like I must be the only one to have never played Half-Life

omfg..... GET WITH IT ELKY

Uh... why? So we have that much more of an "edge" on everyone else?

Boogieman

AAAAAahhhhhhhh!

*relief*

maybe??????