Gaming Future...Now
What can we expect gaming consoles to look like in the future?
Check out some real life ways to interact with video games that will blow your mind...
Check out some real life ways to interact with video games that will blow your mind...
The interactive entertainment industry is a juggernaut reeling in massive amounts of profit.
"Intelligence forecasts that the global market for video games is expected to grow from $67 billion in 2012 to $82 billion in 2017..." -- Forbes
But what sort of new tech developments are in the near future of gaming?
Will consoles continue to roll in the profit, or will the mobile gaming industry take over?
Maybe they will change the exterior appearance of our favorite gaming stations...
Or maybe they will entirely rethink how we are immersed into the gaming experience...
Eh, yea and what if pigs could fly?
Let's stop hypothesizing and lets start looking at what's really out there.
Everything listed below is real.
Xbox 720 concept: IllumiRoom.
A projector connected to an Xbox Kinect projects an extension of the played back content creating a cool immersive effect. Watch it in action in the video below:
The EPOC Neuroheadset
Control your video games with your mind?
Yea, it's a thing. Granted it's still in development though.
And you can own one for a little under $300 bucks. Check it out here.
Or look it up on Wikipedia.
Oculus Rift
The Oculus Rift is an upcoming high field of view (FOV), low-latency, consumer-priced virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) --Wikipedia. Visit the webpage or watch a video about it below:
What other cool new tech is going to increase our immersion into the world of gaming?
Who knows. But I can't wait get my hands on it.