Microsoft Is Developing a Digital Holodeck
We’ve been waiting for Star Trek-style Holodeck technology since, what, 1987? Microsoft Research has finally taken up the challenge and developed this—it’s not quite a Holodeck, but it’s tantalizingly close. The HoloDesk, as Microsoft has dubbed it, uses an overhead screen to project a 2D image down through a half-silvered beam-splitter onto the desktop below.…