I figure I would take a stab at something a bit more technological this time around. Recently Microsoft has unveiled its Project Natal system eliminating the controller as the bridge between the player and game. This will rid you of the need to “touch” being that its completely hands off. Gestures, spoken commands and presented images will become the new method to “game”. For the first time the player's body will be the method of interaction between human and machine.
Now Sony and Nintendo have taken on the task to compete with Microsoft in the battle for motion-sensitive gaming. It will be interesting to see what the future holds. Seems that virtual reality may soon become the present instead of the future. Anyway I just wanted to see what you thought of this new era of gaming.
Speaking of the future of gaming, rumour has it that the Sony PS3 has just patented the idea of an "emotion sensor" system. Apparently, a microphone and camera are installed into the system and it senses when the player is laughing, bored, sad, excited, or angry.
ReplyDeleteThe developers claim that "metadata" (like laughter and the user's expression is picked up from the camera and microphone, then the information is transferred over a network.
It is unclear what they will do with this information, but it all feels a bit too much like the invasion of privacy to me.
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/sony-patents-ps3-emotion-control-626668