“However, it’s important not to get too excited yet as Smoot notes ‘we don’t know yet where that will be used.’”
Disney posted a video of an omnidirectional treadmill floor to celebrate Lanny Smoot getting into the Inventors Hall of Fame. There is no price, no ship date and no product. The inventor himself doesn’t know where it goes. That makes it a patent and a press release, not a holodeck.