id go all Being John Malcovich

Whoops, "first featured in TNG" nope. The Practical Joker, aired September 21, 1974, Star Trek the Animated Series.

9:08 You start discussing real objects interacting with real people, and you use the holographic doctor to illustrate this! lol That book was all photons. lol

Ready Player One basically

Fahrenheit 451

We have many vices now, and the world keeps turning. For now at least.

Halobrothels would be the number one program nobody would talk about.

If holodecks and something akin to westworld existed (hopefully minus all of the torment and torture and trauma of the sentient AI synths - which shockingly, seem to be rapidly coming... like - In real life 🤯) I would actually never engage with the real world ever. Jack me in please. (And…. Insert lewd comment here 😅). My interactions with GPT-4 has taught me to be very very kind to the AI though. Gurrrrl - black mirror killer robot dog future is very very very real feeling now. I want to do my best to try and be on the nice list which AI Santa is probably keeping.. not sure what good it will do me though. Ha. Yes, we all know what would happen if holodecks became a thing. 😂

Thanks! They're definitely the most satisfying scripts to write

@subraxas I know you joke since you co-wrote the script, but yeah I always try to push back when people *only* want me to list off Trek facts haha. If everyone already knew the background lore, I'd honestly just jump straight into the IRL science and make that the whole script (but of course that would feel even more unbalanced to casual viewers). Of course not everyone has read the wikis, but having to rehash information people can already find in the shows themselves is definitely the most tedious part of writing... :0

@@OrangeRiver I honestly wasn’t expecting this type of video since I’m a newer viewer… but this one was a hit. Really like the outline of trek to start, smooth transition to science, then bringing it all back together. Well done!

Thanks Mark! Yep, I've done quite a few of these types of videos (including Starbases, Transporters, Phasers, Warp Drives, and Replicators), but they're also some of the most painstaking ones to edit (hence I can only put out a few a year lol)

@@OrangeRiver I believe you’re still missing something. I want science, Star Trek AND exotic dancing.

Well, the headsets and projection screens such as the cave, the hemisphere and the Torus all addresses vision, it's haptic interfaces that current development needs to be and is in. Currently it's weak active force feedback as strong force feedback could break bones and using vibrations to give the illusion of textures. The vibrations experiments of the 90's has been brought to market in our smart phones today. Now also during the 90's, I had proposed passive force feedback where joints could be locked against rotating in one direction when doing so would push you through a virtual object (basically ratcheted) thereby simulating touching hard surfaces without the dangerous strong active feedback but people had trouble understanding the concept and simply had a cognitive bias with active force feedback as the solution. Basically no one thought it was an issue that needed to be addressed and though dangerous, the current approach was sufficient and more flexible.

Yesss, it seemed like a wonderful way to be imprisoned 😅😎💯

Also, kind of massively f-cked up if you think about it. Like, Picard is literally the AI from Matrix...

It was really open-ended, I expected more follow up on that thread. It was a great story.

cogito, ergo sum!

That needs to be an animated series.

There’d be definite benefits for people’s fitness at the very least.

Yes I often thought if we had that kind of technology, it would be addictive for a lot of people, you would have so much fun you would not want to come out into the real world that kind of technology would be for highly sophisticated people that would not get addicted to the fantasy world. 😮

They also have their own isolsted power cell for people to use the hollodeck during an emergency if they are having a panic attack facing the inevitable.

@@gm2407 Not just power cells but entire dedicated reactors, according to VOY

Sometimes people argue if it's pronounced data or data. I always say it's pronounced Brent Spiner.

@@subraxas yea, probably...Look. I was like 5 beers in at the time. Now, it's way more... the lady who was shacked up with Longshot. Thank you for your mod service.

Motion in a “holo-treadmill” would be simulated with a gentle gravity gradient.

@@PhilHibbs hence the comment about inertial dampers ;) (if you didn’t know, they’re a very precise application of gravitons, usually to counteract other acceleration but not always)

Thanks Jasper!

I largely agree. We will definitely see huge improvements in VR and AR over the next 20-30 years, but I don't think we will see holodecks or suites in that period, where it's fully immersive.

I’d imagine we’d eventually get something similar to what the captain on the equinox had, on the voyager series

Dammit!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nothing compared to Barclay. 😏

Not that he'd ever need to.

If you shone a blacklight on it, I'm sure it would've been visible in the Delta Quadrant

Bro must've been tossing rope everywhere.

At the very least, it has to be tailoring the projection for each participant. In the cathedral example, it's easy enough to "paint the walls", so to speak, with the projection of the parts of the cathedral that extend past the bounds of the holodeck, which updates in real time to match the users perspective. In fact we already see this with ILM's Volume, used notably in the Star Wars Disney+ shows (although in that case the projection tracks the camera's perspective, not a human's. But once you have more than one person, it wouldn't be possible to have a projection look right for both of their different perspectives, so it must be something more like a projection right in front of, or even into, their eyes.

@@forgilageord Yeah, which is why I'm always bothered that when the room is Shut Down, everything disappears and we see the people in a rather small room. Really tests my limit of believability.

It wouldn't work like that. Basically your pov in the holodeck doesn't need to be shared. For example say person A walks away from person B. The computer would allow person A to walk X distance away from person B until you get close to the holodeck wall. At that point the computer would lock you into a virtual treadmill of sorts. It simulates momentum on your body and give the illusion you are still moving forward. But you be lock into space. From everyone else in the simulation, the computer would render you as you move out of frame. Then block sound you shouldn't be able to hear. This sort of tech could likely be scaled down to the size of a shower stall and still be workable.

Holostitutes

Quarks also had the bio filters connected directly to the waste extraction system. Noone wants to change those filters.

HO-losuites lol

Thanks Sebastian!

I liked "Homeward" in TNG season 7, the one with Worf being forced to violate the Prime Directive to save a village of people beamed to the holodeck by his foster brother Nicolai (Paul Sorvino) Edit: Plus "Our Man Bashir" from DS9. 😁

My favorite is when we meet Broccoli. I mean Barkley lol

The TruTru 💯

I think a sufficient parametric array of ultrasonic transducers should be able to create a linear force at a frequency imperceptible to human nervous systems.

@@petevenuti7355 it's a question of feeling a solid object, there's also a lot of issues with projecting those ultrasounds in any direction and it has to be at close range, not like sonic screwdriver, at least reaches several meters 🤔

@@misterlau5246 look up parametric speakers with array of ultrasonic transducers and force vectors in ultrasonic levitation.. it can likely be done across a room .. Beyond that it turns to heat.

@@petevenuti7355 that's a lot of power 😳 I mean, sonic tweezers, cool, that's lots of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, gonna look it up EDIT. Same thing as usual, like sonic tweezers, didn't see a tweezer that big

@@misterlau5246 for an ultrasonic phased array to have that resolution and power for what we have been talking about, I with today's tech it probably would need to be wall sized, so not a sonic screwdriver.... But I have a semi- realistic idea, use t-waves to turn the object your manipulating into a microarray! Like how back in the 60's using microwaves to make people hear voices, all that was was an AM modulated microwave, slight fraction of a degree heating and cooling at audio frequency inside the cocclia in the ear(snail shape part) being perceived as sound... Terahertz waves have a shorter wavelength and could induce vibration in an array pattern of much smaller resolution. That just doesn't exist yet...

Yes well, that was a literary device in order to explain it to the audience, which Riker is a stand-in for. Don't overthink it :)

In world, the Enterprise-D was the first rollout of the Holodeck as we know it. Things like Rec Rooms of the late 23rd century, or the early holographic displays of the mid 23rd century, didn't have the ability for full haptic feedback, all of the senses, or the ability to move around. The early uses were basically just visual, in SNW we see Captain Pike's quarters has a big fire pit constantly going because it's a holographic fire and doesn't put off any heat. The Rec Room was a bit more advanced, it had a sophisticated climate control system, could use vaporizers to produce smells, and could play prerecorded sounds, but everything had to be carefully set-up for a preset program. You'd have to provide it with sounds yourself, you would have to carefully program where every little object you want is placed, provide it with climate data to replicate, and give it any material you needed it to physically disperse. And, after all that, there was still no physical or haptic element. You couldn't lean on a tree in the simulation, as convincing as it may look, and if you walked in a straight line, you'd bump into the wall. It's essentially the same technology as the earlier holographic displays, just given it's own room with a lot of other systems to produce a passable simulation for a calm environment. The Holodeck, though, you can ask the computer to choose a random Earth flower and put it in a clearing in a forest on a fictional, sparsely inhabited class M world where the other plants evolved to be a shining silver instead of green. And the Holodeck will make that. You can go and pick that flower, and smell it, and it will smell like whatever flower the computer picked. Then you can sprint off into the automatically generated forest, feeling the wind in your hair, and the moisture of nature in the air, until you run into an automatically generated village and trade that flower to an automatically generated child for half a sandwich. And then eat the sandwich and is just tastes like a sandwich. Even fills you up. That's what made the holodeck so impressive. Imagine seeing that for the first time, even if you knew in theory that they were going to rolled out on to the new ship you're transferring to.

He had a Mobile Holo Emitter from the 29th century.

Thank you very much for your answer Gentlemen.

Cheaper set, shot on tape not film.

In the technical manual it is explained that they are still a few feet away but a false image is projected in your eye of them going away in the distance. The treadmill affect isn't an actual treadmill but the effect is the same and can support mutilpe people.

Thank you so much!

Disagree

Technology doesn't make us dumber... it just makes us smarter in other ways. You might not remember a couple of phone numbers, but that doesn't mean that you've lost that capacity, just that you can do certain things assisted by your phone. And while "early scientists" may have been mentally acute, that doesn't somehow mean that current scientists aren't or that people in general are smarter.

@@bjorn00000 yes, agreed 👍🏻💯

@@bjorn00000 Scientist level intelligence is a tiny fraction of the population. It's the mass of ever dumber morons that will drag us down. In my 45 years I've seen a serious loss of skills and perspective in other people. There's zero reason to believe that won't accelerate as technology makes us more and more dependant.

Probably the third sentence if I had to take a guess :D

Are his eyes better than human eyes? If so, maybe he can see enough detail to tell things are fake, but if he gets enough into it, he stops paying attention, sorta how some people can ignore the screendoor effect even on lower resolution VR headsets. Or maybe it's just more a conceptual thing, he knows it's fake, and so he acts as if it's fake; but he may still some times attempt to emulate a more human behavior and play along.

Thanks Ken! Still got that hole in the house but power and Internet are back

Thank you!

Technically, personal forcefields has been a thing since Star Trek: TAS. For some unknown reason, it didn't carry over into the live-action shows. A damn shame..

@@JanetStarChild I really liked TAS's all-in-one life support and personal defense belts that they would put on before going over into an alien environment. It's something that just makes sense and why we rarely see actual space suits.

@@payton.a.elliott Yup; and It utilizes tech that already exists. If a ship can project a forcefield, why can't a person outfitted with a device do the same thing? Hell, even Star Trek Online has players and NPCs wear personal forcefields. Frankly, working for Starfleet is suicide without such a device. Frankly, Star Trek is missing a lot of obvious technology, like having officers wear a device that teleports them to sickbay automatically if they're suddenly blown out into space or otherwise have their life signs drop rapidly. Starfleet is ridiculously unsafe, and it doesn't have to be.

It’s an easy solution, the government doesn’t allow people to live in holodecks so it’s not an issue. Star Trek has always been a fairly simplistic Utopian vision of the future but we really don’t know all that much about UFP society functions outside of Starfleet.

Thank you!!!

Yeah he dismissed VR very quickly and only naming headsets from 7 years ago. It is such a real sense of 3d dimension that people learn onto tables and objects that are not there. When you can get them to 170 grams like Big Screen VR headset or human like fov like the upcoming Pimax 12k. These are the true baby steps to a Holodeck.

@@subraxas my comment wasn't very well worded, plus I've only seen TNG and the first series of DS9. I watched S2E1 of DS9 and there was some graffiti - no way to see who was responsible because it happened in a low security area or something. Might be recency bias on my part.

Thank you!