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What do you think is the nearest thing that comes close to reality? Well its simulations and simulations equal games!
In my opinion nothing can simulate a good game of football. Nothing can copy your feelings and emotions at that moment. Sure it is good when your playing 'Championship Manager' and your new striker scores a hat-trick on his debut BUT it comes no where as near as the brilliant feeling of scoring a winning goal for your team in the last minute.
So although computer games can be enjoyable to pretend your the manager of Aberdeen and spend millions of pounds or a great Sniper in World War 2 NOTHING can equal real life.
In saying this though maybe people prefer the computer games because they know that they will never ever do these events in their own lifes. People like myslef and I am sure many other on the FOG would never really want to fight in a WAR so to get the idea of the pain and torture humans go through is to simulate and hope it never happens again :D
Going back onto the initial subject, what will happen in the future> will it stay the way it is or will some kind of gaming machine be invented to make our feeling appear as if they are real an give the ultimate gaming pleasure. Something that will give the impression as if you are really doing it, say playing in a World Cup final. How good would that be? This could happen I saw this thing once that sensors are placed onto the temples on your head and gives the impression you were moving your arm but you were not - rather like a dream. Who has ever awoken with the feeling you need to dodge something and you move you arms as if it were real and not a dream.
However would every gamer appreciate this new found technology if it were to happen? You would lose the control of your actions and you may turn into a nervous reck trying to figure out if it is a fake world or a real world. There are many advantages and disadvantages to this argument so maybe for the time being we stick to the good old reality - because who would really prefer things that are real to turn into computer animation. We would become a race of confused people and also unhealthy because we would do nothing real! What do you think?
In my opinion nothing can simulate a good game of football. Nothing can copy your feelings and emotions at that moment. Sure it is good when your playing 'Championship Manager' and your new striker scores a hat-trick on his debut BUT it comes no where as near as the brilliant feeling of scoring a winning goal for your team in the last minute.
So although computer games can be enjoyable to pretend your the manager of Aberdeen and spend millions of pounds or a great Sniper in World War 2 NOTHING can equal real life.
In saying this though maybe people prefer the computer games because they know that they will never ever do these events in their own lifes. People like myslef and I am sure many other on the FOG would never really want to fight in a WAR so to get the idea of the pain and torture humans go through is to simulate and hope it never happens again :D
Going back onto the initial subject, what will happen in the future> will it stay the way it is or will some kind of gaming machine be invented to make our feeling appear as if they are real an give the ultimate gaming pleasure. Something that will give the impression as if you are really doing it, say playing in a World Cup final. How good would that be? This could happen I saw this thing once that sensors are placed onto the temples on your head and gives the impression you were moving your arm but you were not - rather like a dream. Who has ever awoken with the feeling you need to dodge something and you move you arms as if it were real and not a dream.
However would every gamer appreciate this new found technology if it were to happen? You would lose the control of your actions and you may turn into a nervous reck trying to figure out if it is a fake world or a real world. There are many advantages and disadvantages to this argument so maybe for the time being we stick to the good old reality - because who would really prefer things that are real to turn into computer animation. We would become a race of confused people and also unhealthy because we would do nothing real! What do you think?
Sniper wrote:
> I've got the sheepytitis.
Sounds painful!
> I've got the sheepytitis.
Sounds painful!
I agree I was trying to get a point like that across!
SHEEPY wrote:
"This could happen I saw this thing once that sensors are placed onto the temples on your head and gives the impression you were moving your arm but you were not - rather like a dream. Who has ever awoken with the feeling you need to dodge something and you move you arms as if it were real and not a dream?"
That technology is with us today, in the experimental stages, but mainly in the medical world, for example, someone who has recently lost limbs in an accident and can no longer run, can be given a feed into his or her brain to make them actually feel like they are running which in theory could speed up their psychological recovery from their initial trauma.
However, it can also be used for things like:
You're a soldier in a battle, and orders are given to raze a town to the ground, killing all the occupants. Where a soldier may rebel against this kind of order, a soldier with a 'direct feed' into his head could be made to imagine that he is doing something completely different, when in fact he is actually carrying out the order.
The feed could be made more powerful, so as well as feeling that you are actually doing something, you are actually doing it without being aware of it.
Because of the abuse that this technology could be put to, I don't think we'll be seeing it in the public's hands for a long, long time to come.
"This could happen I saw this thing once that sensors are placed onto the temples on your head and gives the impression you were moving your arm but you were not - rather like a dream. Who has ever awoken with the feeling you need to dodge something and you move you arms as if it were real and not a dream?"
That technology is with us today, in the experimental stages, but mainly in the medical world, for example, someone who has recently lost limbs in an accident and can no longer run, can be given a feed into his or her brain to make them actually feel like they are running which in theory could speed up their psychological recovery from their initial trauma.
However, it can also be used for things like:
You're a soldier in a battle, and orders are given to raze a town to the ground, killing all the occupants. Where a soldier may rebel against this kind of order, a soldier with a 'direct feed' into his head could be made to imagine that he is doing something completely different, when in fact he is actually carrying out the order.
The feed could be made more powerful, so as well as feeling that you are actually doing something, you are actually doing it without being aware of it.
Because of the abuse that this technology could be put to, I don't think we'll be seeing it in the public's hands for a long, long time to come.
I've got the sheepytitis.
SHEEPY wrote:
> I confuse myself!
Uh!
(Sorry i got SNIPER disease)
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> I confuse myself!
Uh!
(Sorry i got SNIPER disease)
Uh
Uh
UH
I confuse myself!
What do you think is the nearest thing that comes close to reality? Well its simulations and simulations equal games!
In my opinion nothing can simulate a good game of football. Nothing can copy your feelings and emotions at that moment. Sure it is good when your playing 'Championship Manager' and your new striker scores a hat-trick on his debut BUT it comes no where as near as the brilliant feeling of scoring a winning goal for your team in the last minute.
So although computer games can be enjoyable to pretend your the manager of Aberdeen and spend millions of pounds or a great Sniper in World War 2 NOTHING can equal real life.
In saying this though maybe people prefer the computer games because they know that they will never ever do these events in their own lifes. People like myslef and I am sure many other on the FOG would never really want to fight in a WAR so to get the idea of the pain and torture humans go through is to simulate and hope it never happens again :D
Going back onto the initial subject, what will happen in the future> will it stay the way it is or will some kind of gaming machine be invented to make our feeling appear as if they are real an give the ultimate gaming pleasure. Something that will give the impression as if you are really doing it, say playing in a World Cup final. How good would that be? This could happen I saw this thing once that sensors are placed onto the temples on your head and gives the impression you were moving your arm but you were not - rather like a dream. Who has ever awoken with the feeling you need to dodge something and you move you arms as if it were real and not a dream.
However would every gamer appreciate this new found technology if it were to happen? You would lose the control of your actions and you may turn into a nervous reck trying to figure out if it is a fake world or a real world. There are many advantages and disadvantages to this argument so maybe for the time being we stick to the good old reality - because who would really prefer things that are real to turn into computer animation. We would become a race of confused people and also unhealthy because we would do nothing real! What do you think?
In my opinion nothing can simulate a good game of football. Nothing can copy your feelings and emotions at that moment. Sure it is good when your playing 'Championship Manager' and your new striker scores a hat-trick on his debut BUT it comes no where as near as the brilliant feeling of scoring a winning goal for your team in the last minute.
So although computer games can be enjoyable to pretend your the manager of Aberdeen and spend millions of pounds or a great Sniper in World War 2 NOTHING can equal real life.
In saying this though maybe people prefer the computer games because they know that they will never ever do these events in their own lifes. People like myslef and I am sure many other on the FOG would never really want to fight in a WAR so to get the idea of the pain and torture humans go through is to simulate and hope it never happens again :D
Going back onto the initial subject, what will happen in the future> will it stay the way it is or will some kind of gaming machine be invented to make our feeling appear as if they are real an give the ultimate gaming pleasure. Something that will give the impression as if you are really doing it, say playing in a World Cup final. How good would that be? This could happen I saw this thing once that sensors are placed onto the temples on your head and gives the impression you were moving your arm but you were not - rather like a dream. Who has ever awoken with the feeling you need to dodge something and you move you arms as if it were real and not a dream.
However would every gamer appreciate this new found technology if it were to happen? You would lose the control of your actions and you may turn into a nervous reck trying to figure out if it is a fake world or a real world. There are many advantages and disadvantages to this argument so maybe for the time being we stick to the good old reality - because who would really prefer things that are real to turn into computer animation. We would become a race of confused people and also unhealthy because we would do nothing real! What do you think?