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I haven't planned this post in great detail, I haven't even thought up a witty line that could be used as a quote on the front page, should my post be good enough to win, but something was dawning on me - reality and it's boundaries and how gaming could take us that little bit further.
I know in a game you can shoot zombies, you can race around London in a Skyline GTR, hey, you can even take England to the World Cup and win, but I'm thinking more on the lines of what can't happen in reality for most of us.
Don't ask why, but I always thought it'd be great to be able to fly, haven't you? It would be pretty impressive, if you were having an argument with someone, you could just take off, no worries! Although if everyone could fly, it'd be fairly pointless, besides we'd all look funny and have wings...
Right - in a game can you fly? Who cares, I want the sensation of flying - I want to feel that adrenalin rush as I'm soaring through the air at 30mph, so it's never going to happen, but it'd could be good.
Gravity, Let's get rid of that - oh wait! You can! But you have to really be an astronaut, so I'm never going to be able to float, don't you think that it'd be fun to float about, or at least own some gravity boots and walk on the ceiling, or up a building, or a tree or something?
How far can gaming sequench these wants and desires? They could make a 'NASA Sim 2001', but I can't see that happening. Games are fun, but I think that to alter reality, or at least to gain a sense of reality, without altering it, we're going to have to need Virtual Reality - I don't mean Sega Lock On, that was pathetic, I'm talking real virtual programs, that really do make you feel as if you're in another world - oh right, the Matrix. But the Matrix just gets more and more boring every time you see it, doesn't it?
What technological advances will we see in this coming 20 years or so, will I still be telling Goatboy to quit smoking, even though he's living on Mars? Or maybe Virtual Reality will become the only way to alter reality, Japan becoming even richer, people actually believing everything in that virtual reality, maybe we're all in one now? Perhaps while our Souls stay still, we're just experiencing the life on this planet?
Anyway, I'm losing myself in a world of confusion, I hope you'll discuss whatever it is I have tried to talk about, please don't shout at me, I'm going to own a Dojo.
Cheers
Dan
I know in a game you can shoot zombies, you can race around London in a Skyline GTR, hey, you can even take England to the World Cup and win, but I'm thinking more on the lines of what can't happen in reality for most of us.
Don't ask why, but I always thought it'd be great to be able to fly, haven't you? It would be pretty impressive, if you were having an argument with someone, you could just take off, no worries! Although if everyone could fly, it'd be fairly pointless, besides we'd all look funny and have wings...
Right - in a game can you fly? Who cares, I want the sensation of flying - I want to feel that adrenalin rush as I'm soaring through the air at 30mph, so it's never going to happen, but it'd could be good.
Gravity, Let's get rid of that - oh wait! You can! But you have to really be an astronaut, so I'm never going to be able to float, don't you think that it'd be fun to float about, or at least own some gravity boots and walk on the ceiling, or up a building, or a tree or something?
How far can gaming sequench these wants and desires? They could make a 'NASA Sim 2001', but I can't see that happening. Games are fun, but I think that to alter reality, or at least to gain a sense of reality, without altering it, we're going to have to need Virtual Reality - I don't mean Sega Lock On, that was pathetic, I'm talking real virtual programs, that really do make you feel as if you're in another world - oh right, the Matrix. But the Matrix just gets more and more boring every time you see it, doesn't it?
What technological advances will we see in this coming 20 years or so, will I still be telling Goatboy to quit smoking, even though he's living on Mars? Or maybe Virtual Reality will become the only way to alter reality, Japan becoming even richer, people actually believing everything in that virtual reality, maybe we're all in one now? Perhaps while our Souls stay still, we're just experiencing the life on this planet?
Anyway, I'm losing myself in a world of confusion, I hope you'll discuss whatever it is I have tried to talk about, please don't shout at me, I'm going to own a Dojo.
Cheers
Dan
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Sensation
It is a great idea that soon things we could never do, climb mountains and swim like a fish things you may never do but we could feel it, we can be immeresed into a game but immersion is never enough, we can feel like we are in the game. Zelda had me immeresed nothing could destract me from those polygons dancing on the screen. In theory i am in the game i think as if this is real but of course it isn't.
When I jump I don't feel like I jumped, it shows I have but where is the sensation? When i'm flying do I feel like im soaring in the clouds with the birds. I don't feel like it? When I go on an in game rollercoaster i don't feel like i'm on one. The next step complete immersion the next big stage in the world of gaming.
One day a blind person can see things they never thought possible, a cripple will be able to feel the exhiliration of a long run all because of games. When that time comes I do not know but that is the future of gaming.
Here's to the future
Dringo
It is a great idea that soon things we could never do, climb mountains and swim like a fish things you may never do but we could feel it, we can be immeresed into a game but immersion is never enough, we can feel like we are in the game. Zelda had me immeresed nothing could destract me from those polygons dancing on the screen. In theory i am in the game i think as if this is real but of course it isn't.
When I jump I don't feel like I jumped, it shows I have but where is the sensation? When i'm flying do I feel like im soaring in the clouds with the birds. I don't feel like it? When I go on an in game rollercoaster i don't feel like i'm on one. The next step complete immersion the next big stage in the world of gaming.
One day a blind person can see things they never thought possible, a cripple will be able to feel the exhiliration of a long run all because of games. When that time comes I do not know but that is the future of gaming.
Here's to the future
Dringo
Sounds like fun, being able to fly and all.
I can't wait for the next 30 years because I know there will be some kind of virtual reality technolagy comming up that has to be good.
Fly? Pah, in the next 30 years they will have probaly merged us with birds to become, bird people :o)
I can't wait for the next 30 years because I know there will be some kind of virtual reality technolagy comming up that has to be good.
Fly? Pah, in the next 30 years they will have probaly merged us with birds to become, bird people :o)
I haven't planned this post in great detail, I haven't even thought up a witty line that could be used as a quote on the front page, should my post be good enough to win, but something was dawning on me - reality and it's boundaries and how gaming could take us that little bit further.
I know in a game you can shoot zombies, you can race around London in a Skyline GTR, hey, you can even take England to the World Cup and win, but I'm thinking more on the lines of what can't happen in reality for most of us.
Don't ask why, but I always thought it'd be great to be able to fly, haven't you? It would be pretty impressive, if you were having an argument with someone, you could just take off, no worries! Although if everyone could fly, it'd be fairly pointless, besides we'd all look funny and have wings...
Right - in a game can you fly? Who cares, I want the sensation of flying - I want to feel that adrenalin rush as I'm soaring through the air at 30mph, so it's never going to happen, but it'd could be good.
Gravity, Let's get rid of that - oh wait! You can! But you have to really be an astronaut, so I'm never going to be able to float, don't you think that it'd be fun to float about, or at least own some gravity boots and walk on the ceiling, or up a building, or a tree or something?
How far can gaming sequench these wants and desires? They could make a 'NASA Sim 2001', but I can't see that happening. Games are fun, but I think that to alter reality, or at least to gain a sense of reality, without altering it, we're going to have to need Virtual Reality - I don't mean Sega Lock On, that was pathetic, I'm talking real virtual programs, that really do make you feel as if you're in another world - oh right, the Matrix. But the Matrix just gets more and more boring every time you see it, doesn't it?
What technological advances will we see in this coming 20 years or so, will I still be telling Goatboy to quit smoking, even though he's living on Mars? Or maybe Virtual Reality will become the only way to alter reality, Japan becoming even richer, people actually believing everything in that virtual reality, maybe we're all in one now? Perhaps while our Souls stay still, we're just experiencing the life on this planet?
Anyway, I'm losing myself in a world of confusion, I hope you'll discuss whatever it is I have tried to talk about, please don't shout at me, I'm going to own a Dojo.
Cheers
Dan
I know in a game you can shoot zombies, you can race around London in a Skyline GTR, hey, you can even take England to the World Cup and win, but I'm thinking more on the lines of what can't happen in reality for most of us.
Don't ask why, but I always thought it'd be great to be able to fly, haven't you? It would be pretty impressive, if you were having an argument with someone, you could just take off, no worries! Although if everyone could fly, it'd be fairly pointless, besides we'd all look funny and have wings...
Right - in a game can you fly? Who cares, I want the sensation of flying - I want to feel that adrenalin rush as I'm soaring through the air at 30mph, so it's never going to happen, but it'd could be good.
Gravity, Let's get rid of that - oh wait! You can! But you have to really be an astronaut, so I'm never going to be able to float, don't you think that it'd be fun to float about, or at least own some gravity boots and walk on the ceiling, or up a building, or a tree or something?
How far can gaming sequench these wants and desires? They could make a 'NASA Sim 2001', but I can't see that happening. Games are fun, but I think that to alter reality, or at least to gain a sense of reality, without altering it, we're going to have to need Virtual Reality - I don't mean Sega Lock On, that was pathetic, I'm talking real virtual programs, that really do make you feel as if you're in another world - oh right, the Matrix. But the Matrix just gets more and more boring every time you see it, doesn't it?
What technological advances will we see in this coming 20 years or so, will I still be telling Goatboy to quit smoking, even though he's living on Mars? Or maybe Virtual Reality will become the only way to alter reality, Japan becoming even richer, people actually believing everything in that virtual reality, maybe we're all in one now? Perhaps while our Souls stay still, we're just experiencing the life on this planet?
Anyway, I'm losing myself in a world of confusion, I hope you'll discuss whatever it is I have tried to talk about, please don't shout at me, I'm going to own a Dojo.
Cheers
Dan
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