Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Google needs a new name for its wicked Holodeck

When Google showed off a way of navigating Street View in a fully immersive room of flat-panel screens at the I/O conference in May, there was a collective web cry of — uh, awesome!

Informally dubbed the “Holodeck,” the room had a chair in the center and a joystick that let you “drive” around. (See the video below applied to Google Earth.)

But alas, the name “Holodeck” is not meant to be.

Paramount Pictures filed for the trademark back in 1992 when StarSource: VentureBeat RSS Feed

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