Disney's HoloTile Floor is a significant step towards making Star Trek's holodeck a reality, allowing users to immerse themselves in realistic virtual environments. The HoloTile Floor, invented by ...

As a geek and former 3D artist, he has fallen in love with it, likening it to the Star Trek holodeck, which allowed crew members to enter holographic 3D simulations of real and imaginary spaces.

The voice interface for the holodeck in Star Trek had users create objects by saying things like “create a table” and “now make it a metal table” and so forth, all with immediate feedback.