"holodeck" meaning in English

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          "text": "Computer music might someday replace acoustic music made by human beings, but that time is far away, waiting either for Holodecks to be perfected or for a generation of listeners to arrive who are too busy and too uninvolved with their ambient surroundings to want to relate to them[.]",
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          "text": "In such a world, would one want to be hooked up to a pleasure machine or live on a holodeck?",
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        "(science fiction) A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc."
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