Given the fact that 15 years ago I still played on my zx spectrum and now I play xbox360 on a hd projector with surround sound, what do you think we will be playing in 15 years time, or what will be the next big technological advance?

contact lens monitors

I think just bigger, cheaper, higher definition screens. I think all the VR stuff people have been trying to come out with for years sounds dumb. And most of the see-through screens and glass displays in movies look like they’d be really uncomfortable to look at with all the distractions in the background. And I would not want to put in a contact just to check my email. Or wear one all the time when I see fine.

virtual reality. im still crossing my fingers.

Hmm… I think the next step is glassless 3d. It works similar to the postcards and dvd covers with moving images. It uses something called linticular film to display a different image to each eye, thus giving the illusion of three dimensional space without the use of polorized or anaglyphic (red/cyan) glasses. Either that… or head tracking

Man, I would love some of those contacts. I like the coffee table that has the monitor & stuff in it, its just too expensive!

We can only hope for photorealism one day. Virtual Reality would be cool in a Matrix kind of way.

I think it’s all heading towards more and more interaction and emotion. Using motion for control, even more ‘movie like’ games, better quality, etc. Also, games seem to be becoming more and more community-focused (hardly any games don’t have online multiplayer of some sort any more), so I can only see that becoming more and more prevalent.

I’d love a matrix-esq body plugin thing (but not as painful or ugly looking as it was in the matrix) and to actually be in the game. That’d be amazing!

The crazy speed at which computers were becoming obsolete in the 90s has already slowed down. An decent 5-year-old PC with a good card will play most games made today, even if the graphics won’t look as good as something brand new. Whereas 1999 machines were junk by early 2000. So overall I think the progress in that respect will slow down a bit, even though we’ll soon be counting RAM in TB, just like we went from Spectrum’s 32b to Amiga’s 512 and the mind-blowing 8MB first Pentiums. Today you even want your new laptop to have 2GB, and wouldn’t even look at anything under 1GB.

I think that roll-up screens and keyboards will become the norm, and PCs will thus become ever more mobile, flexible, light-weight and even shock and water resistant. You’ll be able to fold them into your back pocket, or have tiny lasers that can project the screen on any flat surface (and there’s a similar technology for the keyboard). HDDs are already smaller than wallets, and you can even fit a decent 256GB on a USB flash drive.

VR has improved and there are endless possibilities there which have never been fully explored due to limited interest (ie funds).

The technology is here already, it’s just a question of making it accessible.