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carlfoxmarten) wrote2011-05-03 10:01 pm
carlfoxmarten) wrote2011-05-03 10:01 pm
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Video games (that is, games run by computers, no matter the shape or form they'll become) will always have a certain amount of popularity.
It's hard for me to say which way they might go, as I can see several directions they could head in.
If we ever attain real-time holographic displays and devices that project touches (essentially creating Star-Trek-style Holodecks), we'll probably dedicate entire rooms to playing fully immersive games that take full advantage of the realism involved.
This would include sports games, playing inside movie or book scenes, or anything else that the crew of the Enterprise used the Holodeck for.
On the other hand, if we ever manage to get short-range holographic displays as found in the Mass Effect series of games, we'll probably go back to games that require only a few colours (as full colour holographic displays may be kind of hard to do. At least, they're usually depicted as being monochrome) and are easy to put down (in the technical sense, not in the sense of wanting to) so you're not tied down to a computer (or your wrist computer or Omni Tool as they're called in the games) for an extended period of time.
On yet another hand (hey, how'd that third hand get there?) there's a possibility that we'll start to have our walls embedded with touch screens of a sort, so casual games that are easy to play on a section of wall would be very popular.
On still another hand (alright, who's sticking these extra hands on me!) tablet computers are getting more popular, so small-screen games that don't use much in the way of graphic detail (such as racing games, small-scale simulations, puzzle games, and the like) would become extremely popular.
Of these four possibilities, I think the last one could happen in the next five years or so (or even is happening already), while the first one is likely in the distant future.
(my personal favourite is something along the lines of the second one, as I think wrist-mounted holographic computers will one day become the norm, and game developers will have to make sure that a game can be paused at any point, not just during gameplay)
Video games (that is, games run by computers, no matter the shape or form they'll become) will always have a certain amount of popularity.
It's hard for me to say which way they might go, as I can see several directions they could head in.
If we ever attain real-time holographic displays and devices that project touches (essentially creating Star-Trek-style Holodecks), we'll probably dedicate entire rooms to playing fully immersive games that take full advantage of the realism involved.
This would include sports games, playing inside movie or book scenes, or anything else that the crew of the Enterprise used the Holodeck for.
On the other hand, if we ever manage to get short-range holographic displays as found in the Mass Effect series of games, we'll probably go back to games that require only a few colours (as full colour holographic displays may be kind of hard to do. At least, they're usually depicted as being monochrome) and are easy to put down (in the technical sense, not in the sense of wanting to) so you're not tied down to a computer (or your wrist computer or Omni Tool as they're called in the games) for an extended period of time.
On yet another hand (hey, how'd that third hand get there?) there's a possibility that we'll start to have our walls embedded with touch screens of a sort, so casual games that are easy to play on a section of wall would be very popular.
On still another hand (alright, who's sticking these extra hands on me!) tablet computers are getting more popular, so small-screen games that don't use much in the way of graphic detail (such as racing games, small-scale simulations, puzzle games, and the like) would become extremely popular.
Of these four possibilities, I think the last one could happen in the next five years or so (or even is happening already), while the first one is likely in the distant future.
(my personal favourite is something along the lines of the second one, as I think wrist-mounted holographic computers will one day become the norm, and game developers will have to make sure that a game can be paused at any point, not just during gameplay)