Anyone who has been rooting for the dream of virtual reality (VR) since the early 1990s tends to lose patience a little. Generation following generation, the technology seems to be an eternal promise to the future. That hasn’t changed to this day: Foreign worlds flicker – mostly via wired diving goggles – as a rough sketch, true immersion tends to arise from the good will of the wearer. As long as it doesn’t make him sick. Not only die-hard Trekkies have one question: How long do we actually have to wait for the holodeck?
