Ask the guy who is pretty good at SF Story Identification

[E-DUB]

The real question is, will Space Porn Stars licence their image for use in holodeck sex parties?

I certainly hope so.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Lumpy

I keep imagining an episode where someone was raised from infancy inside a holodeck…

This is the premise of the pretty good Orville novella Sympathy for the Devil by Seth MacFarlane. It’s not about the person having delusions of grandeur, though.

[eburacum45]

@Just_Asking_Questions

I’d say, everyone in the holodeck together is actually in their OWN holodeck. It’s the only way it makes sense. Everyone “Real” is projections in the other person’s experience. Like a space zoom meeting. That way they can be as far away from each other as they need to be.

Exactly. The ‘miniholodeck’ concept would need to be big enough so that you have complete freedom of movement; think Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration of Vitruvian Man. You can stretch all your limbs out to their furthest extent, but no further.

To simulate acceleration, free-fall and so on, you’d need some kind of gravity control, but Star Trek has that already; in the real world you could probably get away with a gimbal rig of some sort, that tilts you backwards and forwards to get a similar effect. A virtual rollercoaster ride is the closest we have at the moment.

And soundproofing, of course - you know how annoying it is in a multiplex cinema when the screen next door is showing a disaster movie during a quiet segment of the film you are watching.

[Der_Trihs]

@eburacum45

Exactly. The ‘miniholodeck’ concept would need to be big enough so that you have complete freedom of movement; think Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration of Vitruvian Man. You can stretch all your limbs out to their furthest extent, but no further.

Eh, a large holodeck could produce the same effect; it just wouldn’t have internal physical walls separating the users. Just a bunch of people in the same room all at least an arm’s length away from each other, even if it doesn’t look that way to them.

[Lumpy]

@eburacum45

The ‘miniholodeck’ concept would need to be big enough so that you have complete freedom of movement; think Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration of Vitruvian Man. You can stretch all your limbs out to their furthest extent, but no further.

You’d have to allow for people in physical contact with each other. More than one gaming group has postulated defeating a holodeck by having enough people hold hands and extend out in a line.

[eburacum45]

I expect that in a sufficiently advanced holodeck all contact would be simulated using haptic interfaces, rather than actually touching. Better than real life, probably. The most advanced holodecks would be more like the Matrix, with all sensations transferred by brain/computer interfaces.

[Gyrate]

@Elendil_s_Heir

This is the premise of the pretty good Orville novella Sympathy for the Devil by Seth MacFarlane. It’s not about the person having delusions of grandeur, though.

There was also an actual Orville episode where Bortus downloads some sketchy holodeck porn and the resulting malware nearly destroys the ship.

We seem to have drifted away from identifying SF stories though.

[Horatius]

@Lumpy

More than one gaming group has postulated defeating a holodeck by having enough people hold hands and extend out in a line.

Except they also have teleportation. The “door” to the holodeck is actually a teleporter, and each person is sent to their own mini-holodeck as they enter, but it seamlessly simulates all your companions walking with you.