What do we think games will look, feel, sound, (taste?) like over the remainder of our lifetimes?
Random opinions and opinions based on fact are welcome!
Random opinions and opinions based on fact are welcome!
The face of gaming in the future?
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GT, you are awesome. That's burger flippin' hilarious!
I remember reading an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. He spoke about a vision he has of games not confined to a screen but filling the whole room, then he shut up and said he shouldn't be talking about that. I almost crapped my office chair. Holography like that hasn't even hit the rumour mill yet, let alone the market, but I'll bet there's a few Japanese co.s sitting on bombshells, waiting for the right moment.
I know for a fact that there is a prototype 3D TV out there. It's a glass cube, made of many thin layers. Each layer has a slice of an image projected onto it, and if viewed from the correct angle, these slices combine to form a 3D image.
I remember reading an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. He spoke about a vision he has of games not confined to a screen but filling the whole room, then he shut up and said he shouldn't be talking about that. I almost crapped my office chair. Holography like that hasn't even hit the rumour mill yet, let alone the market, but I'll bet there's a few Japanese co.s sitting on bombshells, waiting for the right moment.
I know for a fact that there is a prototype 3D TV out there. It's a glass cube, made of many thin layers. Each layer has a slice of an image projected onto it, and if viewed from the correct angle, these slices combine to form a 3D image.
The gaming industry dies after the release of the XBox 720 and PS4. The collapse is fueled by the increasingly expensive demands console developers make on developers and publishers. Millions of consoles are buried in the Mojave.
Several years later, gaming is revived when Nintendo releases the designs of all of their previous consoles into the public domain, fueling development of numerous consoles able to play games from multiple systems and stand-alone machines with games loaded in ROM. Nintendo reacts by renewing development of games based on the old technology, and new games for NES, SNES, N64, GC, and Rev platforms are released. The cottage industry fails to expand into the mainstream, though is successful enough to continue development.
Several years later, Sony and Microsoft devleop technology that merges video games with other popular media, like movies, TV, and music. The result is true interactive entertainment, but everyone is forced to buy either Sony or Microsoft brand TV's and movie and music players. A flaw in both technologies makes all of the users permanently sterile, threatening reducing the population in developed countries to unimaginably low levels, and the ensuing legal action wipe out both companies -- who had a combined yearly profit greater than the GDP of the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Switzerland combined -- in one fell swoop.
Several years later, gaming is revived when Nintendo releases the designs of all of their previous consoles into the public domain, fueling development of numerous consoles able to play games from multiple systems and stand-alone machines with games loaded in ROM. Nintendo reacts by renewing development of games based on the old technology, and new games for NES, SNES, N64, GC, and Rev platforms are released. The cottage industry fails to expand into the mainstream, though is successful enough to continue development.
Several years later, Sony and Microsoft devleop technology that merges video games with other popular media, like movies, TV, and music. The result is true interactive entertainment, but everyone is forced to buy either Sony or Microsoft brand TV's and movie and music players. A flaw in both technologies makes all of the users permanently sterile, threatening reducing the population in developed countries to unimaginably low levels, and the ensuing legal action wipe out both companies -- who had a combined yearly profit greater than the GDP of the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Switzerland combined -- in one fell swoop.
Full holography sounds doable. I'll bet the military would be very interested, which will make it more available and before long everyone will have a room in their house dedicated specifically to media.
The games themselves will become interactive movies where actors will make just as much money in gaming. Controllers will be gone and replaced by either cameras, sensors, or special gloves.
A chip inserted into our foreheads will directly download/upload data into our heads. There will be no TV or consoles. Just pay for a service and it links you up.
The games themselves will become interactive movies where actors will make just as much money in gaming. Controllers will be gone and replaced by either cameras, sensors, or special gloves.
A chip inserted into our foreheads will directly download/upload data into our heads. There will be no TV or consoles. Just pay for a service and it links you up.
also, we will have robots to do our homework. i remember thos promises in my 3-2-1 contact magazines when i was a kid. so i stopped studying. those BASTARDS@!
It is only a very short matter of time before we get to the Star Trek Holodeck.
Rogue Holodeck programs (e.g. Moriarty) here we come! :3dglasses
Rogue Holodeck programs (e.g. Moriarty) here we come! :3dglasses
The first two applications of holography will be military and big, multinat business. For training and holoconferencing, respectively.
After that, we'll see it used for games before we see it used for movies and TV. Games are CG, already 3D images. Easy to transfer to a 3D medium. Live video in holography basically requires a room made out of cameras. That will take a little longer, although bullet-time made an important step.
After that, we'll see it used for games before we see it used for movies and TV. Games are CG, already 3D images. Easy to transfer to a 3D medium. Live video in holography basically requires a room made out of cameras. That will take a little longer, although bullet-time made an important step.
spudlyff8fan said:
Not medicine, though. Usually medicine is spurred on by the sole urge to help one's fellow human being. I don't think those that eradicated smallpox, when they started working, thought "hmm, with this, our troops won't have to worry about getting sick with smallpox anymore!"
Phil speaks the truth! And in fact, a medical tool that is being developed right now could very well find its way into the gamer's den.
Virtual surgery!
Virtual surgery!
Many of our vaccines and cures for diseases comes from the CDC (center for disease control. funny why they named it control instead of elimination). They like to come up with possible new bio hazards (and possible weapons) and then find how to cure it or at least contain it. So in a way, military has provided medical advancements.
I'm curious, how was the printing press rooted in early military applications? How about the internal combustion engine? Electricity? The telephone? Audio recording?
Alright, smart alec, come on. Not EVERYTHING has had to do with military. However, advances in tech has come from the military. The printing press pretty much started a holy war in Europe when they started printing Bibles so that everyone could get one. The internal combustion engine has been advanced periodically by improving them for military applications: planes for WWI and WWII, tanks, and countless other government sponsored programs. Government and military offices had telephones long before Ma and Pa Jones had one, thus providing the financial means for the advancement of it (I know I'm just being stubborn and stretching it, but you asked for it). Audio recording has always been a keen interest of the government for spy applications and companies continue to fight for government contracts for research.
Another realistic one was the microwave. It was originally being researched as a new type of radar to detect German planes. The dude had a candy bar in his pocket that melted when he stood too close to it. Pioneer efforts of getting into space, satellites, and communications have all been advanced hugely by military interests.
Another realistic one was the microwave. It was originally being researched as a new type of radar to detect German planes. The dude had a candy bar in his pocket that melted when he stood too close to it. Pioneer efforts of getting into space, satellites, and communications have all been advanced hugely by military interests.