the future of video gaming

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Ryo Chan

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Apparently watching TV at 3am does help you find out things.

While flipping channels i saw a gaming show on Bravo and they were talking about the next generation of Computer realism.

Surround sound and HDTV are all important parts of gaming nowerdays but where does the industry go from here?

Phillips presents to you.........AMBX


amBX is a system developed by the Surrey based Philips amBX Group which aims to produce a full sensory experience for games, movies, music, websites and other media through the use of furniture and accessories including fans, lights, heaters, rumble-packs and other potential devices. The amBX system utilizes scripts built into games, DVDs and other media, but will most likely include an automated option for providing basic lighting effects for non-amBX enabled content, similar to how Ambilight, another Philips Technology, works. The first amBX-enabled game, Broken Sword: The Angel of Death has already been released, and the first amBX peripherals will ship in time for Christmas 2006. Philips has said that we can expect more amBX technology later this year, primarily for the PC Gaming market, with other media and kits being supported/sold in 2007.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambx

so what is AMBX? simply put for the pc kit you get........... surround sound speakers (with lights on top) 3 fans and a rumble rest which u place under your hands as keyboard rest.

Different games would take advantage of this for example. Toca race driver would have the fans increasing in speed as you sped up, while a war game like call of duty would have the surround sounds, lights flashing and fans blowing when an explosion goes off infront of you.

personally in my point of view, this could be the next big step for gaming baring virtual reality, and i hope it takes off like everyone seems to think it will
 
The fans would be good in hot weather, and horror games, imagine creeping around a horror level and a breeze of air blows pass you as a shadow moves on the screen how creepy would that be.
 
Sounds very interesting, but I wonder how much it'll cost, & how compatible it'll be with older systems...
 
The future for video gaming? Well it all depends what angle you look at it. one way they are getting close to photo realism but just starting off in the physics department.

I think that video gaming has so many doors open and lots of hurdles to jump before it runs out of ideas. I for one would like to see the fully destructable environments.
 
lmc87 said:
The future for video gaming? Well it all depends what angle you look at it. one way they are getting close to photo realism but just starting off in the physics department.

I think that video gaming has so many doors open and lots of hurdles to jump before it runs out of ideas. I for one would like to see the fully destructable environments.
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Can you imagine how much fun Crackdown would be with fully destructable environments?
 
I'm 50/50 on this, I think it's still some way down the road yet. What Ninty have down with the Wii is the start. The quote talks about it happening in 2006/2007, I've heard very little about it.
 
mr-brett said:
lmc87 said:
The future for video gaming? Well it all depends what angle you look at it. one way they are getting close to photo realism but just starting off in the physics department.

I think that video gaming has so many doors open and lots of hurdles to jump before it runs out of ideas. I for one would like to see the fully destructable environments.
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Can you imagine how much fun Crackdown would be with fully destructable environments?
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Precisley, Reminds me of Red Faction when you could blow your way through walls and make your own shortcuts etc. There is only so far you can go with photo realism before the returns get smaller and smaller, I hope that when its this stage they start pumping the money into the physics.
 
Spending a couple of hundred (if not more) pounds on a console only to consider yourself lucky if it doesn't break after a year or so is one of the aspects that I think is the future of gaming (obviously that's more hardware related though).
 
Future of gaming - LittleBigPlanet

Check out this video for the future of gaming. In this game you create the levels and upload them. You can play on your own or co-op online on other peoples designs, which you can customise. And everything in the level is based on physics rather than scripts.

LittleBigPlanet
 
There might not be a future of gaming kids eveywhere are getting adicted t gameing and one day maybe everyone will. Then there will be a group of people who will try and stop the gameing menace and destroy every last game and games console everywhere. Then the nightmare will be over. Then comes a thousand years of boredom.
 
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