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holodeck

noun

  1. Virtual reality device in Star Trek
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From holo- + deck, coined in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

  1. A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.

    […] the fact that science-fiction film, and indeed much — if not most — contemporary film, has become a technology on the way to somewhere else, whether that goal turns out to be immersive, interactive, or some holodeck-style fusion of the two.

    Computer music might someday replace acoustic music made by human beings, but that time is far away, waiting either for Holodecks to be perfected or for a generation of listeners to arrive who are too busy and too uninvolved with their ambient surroundings to want to relate to them[.]