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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, you can have multiple people in the holodeck who are all out of sight of one another, so it's definitely capable of partitioning them off to display different environments to each.

It's unclear what the limits of this are, as most of the mass usage we see (e.g. when it's used for a wedding reception) has most of the participants clustered tightly enough that it wouldn't be necessary. But one of Quark's holosuites can accommodate an entire baseball team despite being much smaller than a Federation holodeck, so the actual required space per partition has got to be pretty small.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

an entire baseball team is one of quarks new holo novels available now, good cross promotion!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What if two people had a very long spool of rope that connected them together, then walked away from each other until they reach the edge of the holodeck, would the partitioning preserve the rope by splicing in new segments as each chunk gets loaded into memory? There shouldn't be any slack in line tension if done properly.