Could NASA Build A Holodeck? Ask NASA Ops Expert Jeff Norris!

How can videogame applied science be used to search space?Jeff Norris , from NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Lab , is here to answer our head about infinite teleexploration , the best way to master a machinelike arm in realtime , and just how close we are to our dream of a holodeck .

Norris founded and lead JPL ’s Ops Lab , which not only builds the control software package for JPL ’s spacecraft it also visualize out newfangled things for us to do with it , with projects ranging from developing a Kinect - controlled robotic sleeve to using the data beam back from Mars to search an Oculus Rift - enable version of the cerise major planet from our own rod here on world . Norris also head the team that develop the control tools for the Spirit , Opportunity , and Curiosity Mars Rover missions . He ’s receive both the Lew Allen Award for Excellence ( JPL ’s highest honor for a technologist in the former years of their career ) and the NASA Software of the Year Award .

He will be joining us today from noon – 1 p.m. ( Pacific fourth dimension ) Ask him whatever you want about holodeck theory , VR - controlled robots , and how videogame technology could bring quad exploration to us all .