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Professor Moriarty and the Physics of Holodecks - Sixty Symbols
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- Professor Phil Moriarty discusses holodecks and other science-fiction ideas from Star Trek.
- The description links a 1960s-era patent for a mirascope, a Nature Scientific Reports paper on colour volumetric displays using holographic-laser-excited graphics, and Voxel Photonics, a 3D display company.
Why watch · It offers a physicist's look at whether holodeck-style technology is plausible, with links to real volumetric display research.
- Holodecks
- Volumetric displays
- Star Trek
- Holography
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Self-confessed Star Trek fan Professor Phil Moriarty talks about holodecks and other things from the final frontier. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ More Phil Moriarty Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBMluNZrpoiFc-5buqD74JNs Phil's blog: https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/ Patent 3,647,284: https://www.scribd.com/document/947761905/US3647284-patente-mirascopio Voxel Photonics: https://voxel3d.co/ Colour volumetric display based on holographic-laser-excited graphics using drawing space separation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02107-3 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Video by Brady Haran and James Hennessy http://www.bradyharanblog.com Brady's chemistry channel is Periodic Videos - https://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos And mathematics at Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/numberphile