How would you like to interact with your video games?

As I've been a PC gamer for a long time (unfortunately haven't had the time lately) I'm used with a keyboard and a mouse. Right now it would be too soon, but in the future I'd like to see some technology where you could be in the game and do all the moves yourself. For instance if your playing an FPS where you would like virtually run jump and shoot, but it feels like your doing it all in real life. That would be very cool - I'd love to see that.

Thanks to innovations such as a touch table, augmented reality and the new Kinect, I've always felt it's time to re-imagine how gaming works.

With the Kinect alone you could re-imagine a game like Dungeons and Dragons. With what they showed with Milo the games can recognize your voice, your face, and the words you use. As such, we should be able to create a virtual DM on the Kinect to let you play Dungeons and Dragons. You would use all of the same things from real life, but the game would show you what was actually happening. You would also be able to use XBL to download new campaigns, quests, and software updates for the D&D system.

The touch table could be used in this way, as well, by offering a surface for your character sheets, dice rolling, and many other things that would need real world counterparts. Obviously the dice would still need to be real, but the table could read the result of the roll quickly and automatically take action. The dungeon map would be more interactive and built into the table, along with most of the system.

Augmented Reality (a head set that can display extras into reality) would add a whole new realm of playability to various games. FPS games in real life would be an obvious benefit. RPG games would work out fairly well, too. I can see augmented reality being used to create games in a new way very soon, if we can ever get passed the physical controller and screen. After all, what use is a screen that can display 3D and fake the game being in your reality if you actually can project the game into your reality? When the Playstation Eye showed the animal in your living room that you could pet and control, you still had to look at the screen. With augmented reality, you could see that animal and interact with it without needing to look at the screen. It would follow you wherever you go, avoid other people walking by, get trapped by doors, everything a real pet would have trouble with or enjoy. The only downside is the inability to feel the augmented parts of reality, which we aren't very far from remedying. If people want to get gamers moving, though, I think this would be the way to do it.

So, if I had to pick just one of these, I'd have to go with the Augmented Reality. Above all others, this one would be the coolest and has the most potential. Second in line would be Kinect. Both of these would be great if they would just finally do them right.

As for tech that we don't have yet, Holograms aren't nearly as far along as they should be. Once we can project them into a room, visible from all angles, and preferably interact with or touch them, then Holograms will be the absolute best thing for gaming ever.

I think the controllers for the Xbox360 and PS3 are pretty decent as they are.

This move into motion technology is a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. Instead of making the controlling of the games' aspects easier they have made them much much slower and require a lot more effort. Ask almost any PC gamer out there and they'll tell you that the response time between the pressing of a button or clicking of a mouse and the desired result makes the world of difference. We should be trying to make it so you practically think something and you see it happen on screen simultaneously.

Another thing which the Xbox360 in particular is definately moving away from is feedback. When Sony released their Sixaxis they soon brought out the DualShock3 to provide it with the feedback it was lacking. I just don't see how Kinect can work without having some other form of feedback than what you see on screen. Then again I have a similar problem with devices that only use touchscreen, but I won't get into that now.

With a mouse and a keyboard. It's the way games are meant to be played!

I don't mind the current technology and we don't need new ones yet. We just need better games. New game hardwares are crap if they don't make good games. But for the Computer games, I want them to be compatible with a touch screen monitor since I like to play RTS games on it.

Maybe an online game where you play while your sleeping in your dreams. You would actually be in the game and it won't disturb your sleep. When you wake up you would have forgotten most of the things you did in the game because it was a dream game. So to sum it all up you would basically be playing using your mind.

This would probably never happen.

If you want cool, check out NeuroSky's as they are coming out with brain-reading video games...

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