Nvidia's Project Holodeck demo at GPU Tech event.
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Nvidia demos Project Holodeck for sharing high-resolution images in a 3D space

Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, showed off a new technology that he called Project Holodeck, inspired by the ultra-realistic virtual environment Holodeck in Star Trek.

In the demo at the GPU Technology conference in San Jose, Calif., Huang showed how a group of four people in robot suits could enter a 3D space and share a highly realistic computer model of a sports car. They went inside the car and noted the whole simulation was physically accurate. So one of the researchers grabbed the steering wheel and their her hands didn’t go through it.

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