Star Trek Tech Will Let People Meet Virtually

Edmonton researchers are developing a virtual reality technology for business meetings that they say is pretty close to science fiction — specifically, like Star Trek’s famous holodeck.

In the television hit, the holodeck let spaceship crew members enter holographic computer-simulated environments that seemed like the real thing.

Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have spent the past year working on their own 3-D virtual reality technology that they say will make it seem as though participants of a video conference are all in the same room — even if they’re sitting in different countries.

“As engineers and scientists, we look at these futuristic things and we say, ‘Well, we can build that,’” said David Antoniuk, the director of business development for TRLabs in Edmonton, a partner on the project. “So we’re trying to develop this holodeck technology.”

The new technology is being developed with Hewlett-Packard in California.

To read the complete interesting article go to CBC.

Thanks goes out to Slice of SciFi fan Kurt Armbruster for tipping us off to this story.