While we still have a ways to go before the advent of photon torpedoes and warp drives, Stony Brook University has just brought us one step closer to our Star Trek future with the unveiling of its immersive video projection system, the Reality Deck. What? Holodeck was already taken.
The Reality Deck is the world's first immersive 1.5 gigapixel-resolution display. Located at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) at New York's Stony Brook University, this unique facility is funded by a $1.4 million research grant from the National Science Foundation and a matching $600,000 grant from the University itself. The facility is designed to help scientists visualize the massive amounts of information in the present and future eras of Big Data—everything from massive image collections covering hundreds or thousand years of art history to creating a walk-through virtual colonoscopy based on the University Medical Center's new 320-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner. Satellite imaging, climate modeling, astronomical applications, crime monitoring, and news analyses are all possible.
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