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Oct 8, 2026 12 min

Real Life Holodeck with an Oculus Rift - Computerphile

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The closest thing to Star Trek's 'Holodeck' - a large scale tracking lab with VR headsets used to develop everything from redirected walking to quadcopter control algorithms.Thanks to Joachim Tesch and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics for showing us and explaining it.Emoji & the Levitating Businessman: http://youtu.be/tITwM5GDIAIDifficult Program to Compute: http://youtu.be/i7sm9dzFtEITweeting Vending Machine Hack: http://youtu.be/-NVex5tVGy8How Computer Memory Works: http://youtu.be/XETZoRYdtkwhttp://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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