Today’s meeting is scheduled for 9:30 in the 9th floor’s Holodeck

I’ve previously discussed how Telepresence is making Teleportation seem closer than ever. But there’s another cool invention, previously available only for Star Trek crew members, that is making its way to our desktop - The Holodeck. If you are not a Star Trek buff, here’s a brief explanation: “Holodeck,” short for Hologram Deck, is a virtual reality system, evolved sometime in the not-terribly-distant future (the 2360s), which transforms an empty room into a virtual world, including props, characters, background, etc. (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  May 6th, 2008  |  Filed under Collaboration, Innovation
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Beam me on, Charlie!

“Beam me up, Scotty” is probably the most quoted phrase in science fiction television. Taken from cult TV series Star Trek, which first aired more than four decades ago, this command from Captain James Kirk to his transporter chief, Montgomery Scott, was a cue for “Scotty” to transport Captain Kirk back to the starship Enterprise. Star Trek heroes get “beamed up”. More than 40 years have passed and yet teleportation hasn’t become more of a reality than it (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  April 22nd, 2008  |  Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
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