What will video games be like in 25-50 years?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:03 pm
This is my vision of what video games will be like in 25 to 50 years.
The entire game world and everything in it will be made up of very small particles and extremely short invisible "springs" connecting them. These particles and springs will have certain characteristics that allow them, when combined with many more particles and springs, to behave in distinct ways. Particles that have strong springs can form solids and particles with weak springs would form liquid like substances. A small amount of force could easily break a spring connecting two particles and thus would behave like water. (A spring breaks when two masses get pulled apart, past the "breaking limit", and gravity itself would be strong enough to do that)
Say good-bye to polygons and textures... Everything is made up of particles, and each particle has simply a color value, not a texture.
Scanners could be built in real life that can scan an object and produce the appropriate construction of particles for use as game "models."
The advantage to this particle system is that programmers would no longer have to program game physics. The particles, having their own mass and changeable characteristics, will behave properly on their own. And the whole game world can be completely destructible everywhere, given enough force (to break the spring connections).
Of course such a system would require massive processing power... But I have faith in technology.
...Aight, here is where the fun begins.
No longer will video games be played on your TV and controlled by stupid input devices. Nor will you be accused of being an unproductive slob. How is this possible you ask? You will play video games... while you sleep. With the Dream Inducer 5000!
When you go to bed you stick a device on your forehead and go to sleep. At a certain time, the Dream Inducer kicks in and you are welcomed by the machine logo in a controlled dream. Think about it... The freedom! You have complete control over your body, without actually moving your limbs in real life like when you are awake... You can see like in real life, you are no longer looking at little box in your room. Imagine the possibilities! The Dream Inducer will have online functionality of course, so meeting and playing with your friends while you sleep will be the norm.
Skeptical? Well we are already half-way there (sort of). We already have the technology to read signals from our brains and control robotic arms like it were our arms (atleast for chimps that is).
I had thought of more ideas and details about the above earlier.. But I forgot them for now.
So post what you think video games will be like in 25 to 50 years.
The entire game world and everything in it will be made up of very small particles and extremely short invisible "springs" connecting them. These particles and springs will have certain characteristics that allow them, when combined with many more particles and springs, to behave in distinct ways. Particles that have strong springs can form solids and particles with weak springs would form liquid like substances. A small amount of force could easily break a spring connecting two particles and thus would behave like water. (A spring breaks when two masses get pulled apart, past the "breaking limit", and gravity itself would be strong enough to do that)
Say good-bye to polygons and textures... Everything is made up of particles, and each particle has simply a color value, not a texture.
Scanners could be built in real life that can scan an object and produce the appropriate construction of particles for use as game "models."
The advantage to this particle system is that programmers would no longer have to program game physics. The particles, having their own mass and changeable characteristics, will behave properly on their own. And the whole game world can be completely destructible everywhere, given enough force (to break the spring connections).
Of course such a system would require massive processing power... But I have faith in technology.
...Aight, here is where the fun begins.
No longer will video games be played on your TV and controlled by stupid input devices. Nor will you be accused of being an unproductive slob. How is this possible you ask? You will play video games... while you sleep. With the Dream Inducer 5000!
When you go to bed you stick a device on your forehead and go to sleep. At a certain time, the Dream Inducer kicks in and you are welcomed by the machine logo in a controlled dream. Think about it... The freedom! You have complete control over your body, without actually moving your limbs in real life like when you are awake... You can see like in real life, you are no longer looking at little box in your room. Imagine the possibilities! The Dream Inducer will have online functionality of course, so meeting and playing with your friends while you sleep will be the norm.
Skeptical? Well we are already half-way there (sort of). We already have the technology to read signals from our brains and control robotic arms like it were our arms (atleast for chimps that is).
I had thought of more ideas and details about the above earlier.. But I forgot them for now.
So post what you think video games will be like in 25 to 50 years.
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