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The tech to build the holodeck

“We see it as a fundamental change.”

So I did what anyone would do: I busted out my phone and took lots of photos of the place to preserve as many memories as possible: the warm fireplace; the shelves full of familiar books; the rickety old garden bench up front that everyone signed during a special birthday celebration many years ago. I opened up Scaniverse, a 3D scanner app from Pokémon Go maker Niantic, and captured some of those things as 3D objects, crouching and tiptoeing my way around them as I slowly moved my phone to record every angle and inch. He envisions these types of clips eventually replacing the recordings of instructors in VR workout apps like Supernatural or professional educational content because they allow users to look at instructions from all angles.

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