Holodeck watch: Real-time volumetric video takes a giant leap

Imagine a next-gen VR experience that lets you speak realistic scenes, intelligent characters and complex situations into being, then interact with them in real time. It’s coming, due to a convergence of tech like this advance in real-time 3D video.

I’ve been wonking on about this for months now; between AI video generators like Sora, AI character and narrative building tools, AI music and sound effects creation tools, and projects like Google Genie, dedicated to live-creating entire interactive games and experiences in real time, most of the major ingredients are already here – in embryonic form.

Sure, there’s no proper hologram generator as yet, but if you’re willing to accept a VR headset on your noggin, speed, latency and convergence strike me as the only barriers between where we are now and a fully functioning Holodeck experience, in which you simply say where you want to be, who else is …