“AUSTIN – If you use your smartphone for directions, you know how annoying it can be when the tracking device gets your locations wrong. Now a team of researchers at the University of Texas’ Cockrell School of Engineering say they may have fixed that problem. But there’s more: They also think they’ve brought a science fiction dream closer to reality. In the space adventure series Star Trek canon, the holodeck was a room where the characters could create virtual worlds and interact within them.
Continue reading the KUT article, which features an interview with Dr. Humphreys.