Virtual Reality Cocoon Being Designed

gurps_npc writes "CNN reports that a company called 'NAU' is working on an Immersion Cocoon that seems inspired by ST:TNG's Holodeck. The images are only 2D, and you can't touch them. But it is 360-degree video and sound, with light sensors to detect your hand movements and floor sensors to detect foot movements. They hope to have a prototype by October 2009."

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What will nintendo call it?

[LiENUS]

Obviously this is the replacement for the Wii, but what will Nintendo call this one?

I guess it's press release time.

[BitterOldGUy]

Vague details in the article, ideas for its application, comparisons to a sci-fi program, ...blah blah, yadda yadda...not here yet...press release to get funding...blah...

My proof:

NAU hopes to complete its prototype Cocoon by October 2009, with models commercially available by 2014. Initially, it's intended to be used in public spaces or to be leased by companies, until the technology becomes cheap enough for the consumer market. But where NAU are creating an escape from the real world, others are working on ways of merging virtual information with the real world.

So this is the second 'article' with no substance.

Re:Holodeck, huh?

[Quasar1999]

And of course 90% of that time there will be some sort of glitch just to make things interesting.

Will it have...

[Enderandrew]

Will it have a porn, I mean, privacy mode?

So really...

[pcgabe]

[...] an Immersion Cocoon that seems inspired by ST:TNG's Holodeck. The images are only 2D, and you can't touch them.

So, not at all like the Holodeck, then?

I'd be impressed...

[Reality Master 101]

I'd b impressed if they could just come up with a floor where I could walk/run in any direction and it would keep me in place. Do that, and then we're talking about something.