Gaming Future might not be so far away.

[BlueDragonMan]

Matrix, you jack into a cybernetic world. Seems kinda far fetched and sci-fi ish. Well its not as far fetched as you might think! In 2003 biotech company Cyberkinetics, in association with Brown University, developed BrainGate. BrainGate is a brain implant system in which a small sensor is placed on the area of the brain responsible for movement. This then transmits neural signals to a pedestal attacked to the skull and protruding through the skin. A cable then runs from the pedistal to a computer which can interpret the signals accurately enough to facilitate remarkably accurate cursor control by simply thinking about it!

Crazy eh? Well thats not all thats in store. Novint has made a droidlike Falcon controller due on the PC in june for roughly 190 dollars, that takes forve feedback further with servos that resist hand motions to simulate an in-games object's weight and texture.

So now when you are playing Morrowind and your weilding that sword and attacking people it will feel almost like the real thing. <.< Sweetness if I say so myself.

Well here's even more stuff to be excited about! Project Epoch brain-reading headgear, due out next year from San FRancisco based Emotiv Systems, is supposed to detect its users facial expression, discern emotion states and even distinguish between such similar mental commands as push the block and rotate the block. Now you might be sceptical but this actually works! Now this wont be replacing joysticks, but it will enhance the playing experiance.

Woo. Now onto some cool TV info. Mitsubishi has a rear projection "laser television" that uses seperate red,green, and blue lasers and a plastic screen instead of glass, that will come out by the end of 2007! In about 20 years we will be looking at a new kind of tv all together, woven displays. These are tvs that use a fabric material that conducts electricity , folds up in a portable sheath, and look smore realistic than any LCD or plasma. Also we might very well see the birth of holodecks within our lifetime. That would be truely amazing, to play games on a holodeck. :O

Cell phones will also get a do over as they will be getting oranic light emitting diodes or OLED technology. This is speculated to be fully operational around 2017. OLED displays are bright and incredibly small. This will increase the cell phone resolutions and bring it up to tv quality. Another thing in the works for cell phones are projectors built right into them. This will alow them to display high resolution images on a wall. This is speculated to come in about 20 years.

So what do you guys think about that stuff?

[Kameo]

I don't know, there's something I don't like about "brain implant". A lot of doctors these days can't even perform a regular surgery with-out messing it up. Who says they can give U a brain implant properly??

And brain implant?? Who wants some company to actually screw with Ur brain just so U can play some Game?? Go ahead, U can call me old fashioned, but there's no way I'm ever going to let anyone stick anything into my head.

I'll go with Total Immersion's holographic stuff, it might not be the same kind of experience, but at least it's safe :) .....

[Pouso-G]

I would rather prefer the holos, too.

I'm real on gaming is nothing more than pushing buttons! Consoles are fun when you have to interact with the whole body like Playstation 2 Eye Toy or Nintendo Wii. But as I'm a maniac SITTING sometimes over 14 hours (Personal record is currently 57 hours. Woke up by the bending metal sound of my car on the wall in New York at Forza Motorsport!) at my PC, consoles or whatever, please tell me: How could you be jumping, running or smash the Wiimote into the roof lamp for this time? Ok, a lightgun IS fun, but that should be it. Not attacking anybody who bought a Wii, but this is for girls or children that have no friends. It's what I think.

I saw a dude on TV that had an identity chip implanted in his forearm. He logged into several internet sites and even opened his car just by waving his arm over a reader. Who needs this?

Saw another show about laser projectors and OLEDs. I was really fascinated of the LPs, cause they had a clear view even on a waving white flag!! They mentioned the OLEDs for cellphones too, telling that a CP could be in a pen and you could pull out the screen rolled into it. They were talking about screen sensivity when touching it. I think this will be a real revolutioning CP market. On the same reportage they had super oversized multi-colour-LCD screens. This screens could have the measurement and geometric 3D form you like. Great!

It is technology. Nobody will stop it! Every advance will hopefully be good!