A few days ago I stood on a real-life holodeck. Yes like the one in Star Trek. Go anywhere, be anyone.
And I did. And was. I stood on the surface of Mars. Sailed through the Asteroid Belt. Explored the surface of Pluto.
I stared in awe at the Aurora Australis and chilled on an isolated beach after surfing huge waves. The adrenaline was intense.
When I say I was on the holodeck, to be clear the holodeck was on my head, my face to be precise. Officially they're called vr goggles, and yes, they look silly. But to me it was a holodeck, or near-enough.
As a compulsive sucker for things geek, I am often disappointed by the ho-humness of recent technology. VR (or maybe AR but let's not get into that) coud be a game changer.