Virtual lovemaking can be a reality in a hotel room in 2030

The hotel room of 2030 may look a lot like a hotel room in 2011, but futurist Ian Pearson said the guests will be able to do much, much more.

By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor

To sleep, perhaps to dream, and perhaps engage in a little virtual Hanky Panky while you're at it. Based on a recently released survey conducted by the UK's Travelodge hotel chain, it seems that Shakespeare may have only been there two-thirds right.

Performed by noted futurist Ian Pearson, the 'Travelodge future of Sleep "The study looked at changes travelers can expect to see in the hotel room until 2030. Virtual displays, electro-sensitive fabrics and, yes, virtual lovemaking – all sounds so good, we can not wait to check in.

Unfortunately, the rates in the future are not quite ready yet. While we wait, we decided to catch up with Dr. Pearson via two-way Dick Tracy watch – OK, we Skyped – and ask him to develop his results. Here is an edited transcript of our cyber-chat:

Q: What is the significance of 2030?

A: The year itself is not important, but when Travelodge first approached me, asked me to investigate the rates of the 2050th But in that timeframe, you're talking about direct brain links and stuff. 2030 is far enough away to be exciting, with a lot of interesting things happening, but not so far away that it all would be Star Trek.

Q: You suggest that the room itself will not look dramatically different. Can you elaborate?

Answer: In 2030, rates that bristling with technical skills, but it will not be visually intrusive. If you do not have the technology turned on, it will not look so different than it did 25-30 years ago.

Are you excited about Ian Pearson's vision of the rooms in the future?

A: The primary is any kind of augmented reality headset that you take with you to access cloud-based services. In 2030, people will have 15, 16, 17 years old to use video visors. You will be able to see your loved ones in a virtual reality, watch your own TV shows, listen to your own music collection. You will be able to do anything in the hotel room in 2030 that you can make in your favorite room in the home.

Q: Some people will surely fail to wear a visor. What about them?

Answer: My favorite technique is the scene after the visor – go to the contact lenses to produce high-resolution video images on the retina. You will wear them just like any other contact lenses, but they will sit under your eyelids so you can still watch TV or stay in communication with people even with your eyes closed.

Question: Given that many people still have trouble programming alarm clocks and digital displays from a stop blinking 12:00, you are worried that the technology will overwhelm them?

A: No, because it will get its own technology, they will have lived with it for 15 years. If you go back 15 years to mid 90's, and explained that people today spend half their day on Facebook and Twitter, and set up their TV sets to record whole series of shows, they would say it was nonsense .

Question: If all carrying their own technology, the hotels do not have to make such large investments in infrastructure, correct?

A: That's right, the hotel will be the big spending on things like the bed – there's a lot you can do when it comes to sleep better. When you start getting towards bedtime, AR [augmented reality] things start taking a back seat. What you really want to do is lie down and get a good night's sleep.

Q: And how is hotel rooms in 2030 to promote it?

A: You can do linen with polymer gels expand and contract in the electric field. If they respond quickly enough, then you have a mechanism for creating a vibrating membrane that essentially would get around you. Your sheets will almost hug you while you are in bed.

People are already developing LEDs fabrics, which means you also will be able to change the pattern or color. You could push a few buttons, or tell the computer that you want blue or pink sheets, or sheets with one or the other pattern. It is also quite possible that they can be used as a monitor – you could take off the visor and watch the video next to you on your pillow.

Q: And when you really do decide to go to sleep?

Answer: This is where things get fun. When you start to fall asleep, you start to dream, and as you know, you insert the sound you hear around you in your dreams. What if you could video images in the eyes while you dream. Maybe you dream of a Caribbean beach, but your imagination is not that great. Well, here is a much better one.

Q: You also suggest it will be possible to share these dreams. How would that work?

Answer: If you are watching the same video, you have the same experience. It can become a fully interactive experience – it's almost as good as being there. It will almost down to the ability to love with someone in a dream. All components needed to make it come to exist and be in a mature state 2030th

Q: Hmmm, sounds like a formula for virtual infidelity …

A: It's all about the quality of your relationship. Want to be your real partner, or someone else? You can use this in the context of a stable relationship, or you can be a CAD and play. It's no different than the Internet – you could send love letters to your wife or hanging out in chat rooms with all the others.

Q: Other than connecting with the home, what all this means for travelers?

Answer: Maybe you are in a foreign city you've never been before. You do not have enough time to go out and explore it physically right now, but you can get the essence of it by running a very quick tour through the hotel's IT systems. Say there is a cathedral out of the window – that's what it looks like inside. There is a castle over there – that's what it looked like 300 years ago.

Q: But if you can do everything as good anyway, why go at all?

A: I think the more you look so good, the more you want to go there and visit. When you see a nice beach on a travel program, you say no, "Oh, I've seen the beach, I need not go further." You are on the next flight over there.

Once you have fully immersive 3-D technology is connected to your nervous system and you get a feel for what a place is like, you want to experience it in real life. I think people will make more trips in 2030 than they are today.

Q: And finally, for those who may be skeptical about predicting what life will be almost 20 years into the future: Where we all would have robots doing all our work for us now?

Answer: If you define a robot as a machine that gets things done all by itself, then a dishwasher and washing machines qualify as robots. We just do not like them that way because they do not walk around on two legs. The vision of C3PO walk around and do all the jobs you can think of is still quite a ways off. We get there, but we're a little late on this one.

Rob Lovitt is a long-time travel writer who still believe that the journey is as important as the goal. Follow him on Twitter.

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