The biggest problems with Video Games is...and here is what is next

The biggest problem with Video Games is...they aren't real. Is also the best thing about them and lets face it, a ton of people would be dead and life would probably be terrible depending on the game.

Games like books, and movies before them tell a story that you can insert yourself into and alter the reality that your in. Good, bad, or otherwise this is in the eye of the beholder and not my point. Every generation of game creators, and player's for that matter want to find ways to have a more realistic intimate gaming experience. Game engines that create seeming real time environments where things happen in game as close to what we would imagine would happen in real life "if" the game was reality.

At some point video games are going to reach the limits of what any "Device" can do. So what's next? I'll come back to this first let me take you back to the days of Laser Tag.

In my home town there is very small amusement park that had a "Laser Tag" game that you could play in a room upstairs. Basically they got a bunch of guns and vests and charged people to run around in a obstacle sized room and see which team could rack up the most kills. It was fun cheep and the liability insurance eventually closed them down.

Now lets take the laser tag arena and instead of cheesy plastic guns and pads(you put a chest piece on over your clothes and it had target sensors all over it) in a cheep small environment. What if things got ramped up to the next level? I say these guys should have taken it a step farther, and they could have saved the Laser Tag room and eventually the whole park. No, I don't mean they should have turned it into a paint ball park. Yes, that would have probably worked also.

Imagine if you will a headset, that really is a real helmet, imagine that instead of a chest piece you have full armor. Now imagine that inside the helmet, is a screen that displays the scenery and environment of let's say the first HALO. Using OLED tech like what was unveiled at CES this year.
[ http://journik.com/convergence/]

So you could not use a small room or a large room for that matter you would need something bigger. I think indoor soccer is perfect size, also Hockey rinks are not a bad choice.

Now maybe your asking "why full body suit?", well there is a good reason for this. Your environment fights back.

Now that I've got you on this train of thought digest that and I'll come back to it in my next post.