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It’s not Star Trek’s holodeck, but the Virtusphere, a hollow globe 3 meters in diameter mounted on rollers that let it rotate in place, may be the next best thing. The Virtusphere registers your footsteps while you’re wearing virtual reality headgear so that the simulator or gaming system responds accordingly, helping to immerse you in a digitally created environment.










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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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