in the future, they should make a first person, goggle vision game that you can use all of of your 5 senses, or maybe even add a 6 sense. ofcourse the graphics will have to be nice. If it gets too real then people will forget that they are only playing a game.

stepping back.................... turns............... runs for the hills................what was all that about

But then all of the perverts would stay inside their homes and I wouln't get anymore attention...

That would be nice but hopefully if it is a fighting game people will not really get injurted and stuff.

All the perverts already staying in their homes because of the internet (I say as I type a message into an internet message board....)

sounds a little ominous almost like a prelude to the Matrix

There is a book called Red Dwarf, it was also made into a television series. Anyway, in the story, there is a computer cgame called "Better Than Life" that people get into and forget they are playing. Nonetheless, it's kind of like what you are on about.

There is already something like that (kinda). I saw it on tv a while ago, a japanese guy invented a real Pacman game, where one player can be Pacman, and several other players can be the ghosts. They wear vr goggles, and the "Pacman" really sees coloured dots, and he sees the other players as ghosts. And the ghosts really see a yellow Pacman. Then the Pacman character has to run around and grab all the dots, while the other players chase him down the street.
I'll see if I can find some more info about it, it looked kinda cool.

Edit:
Oh, I just found out that this has been around for almost three years now, lol.
So why haven't I seen these things in the toy stores yet??
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6689.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/16/explorers.pacman/

Oh we've reached that stage already.

It's called World of Warcraft.

You heard those stories of people in Asia playing in for days straight with no sleeping or eating, then dying.

So many people are addicted to it.

I GOT THIS STRANGE IDEA WHEN I HAD SEVERAL LUCID DREAMINGS......... YES IT IS.... I EXPERIENCED KNOWING MYSELF THAT IM DREAMING, AND TAKE CONTROL OF IT........

I BELIEVE THAT FUTURE GAMES WILL BE LIKELY BE PATTERN INTO DREAMS..... THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN FEEL OUR GAMES AS IF IT IS REALLY HAPPENING..... AND NOT JUST GAMES WE CAN ALSO WATCH MOVIES AS IF WE ARE FLOATING UNSEEN WHILE THE ACTORS ARE PLAYING, ......... MEET EVERYONE OUR CHATMATES,RELATIVES, ETC.....

I JUST WISH THAT SOMEONE WILL COME UP WITH A COMPUTER THAT IS ORGANIC THAT WE CAN PLUG OURSELVES ONTO IT THEN INTO CYBERSPACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS........... JUST LIKE IN A MOVIE MATRIX....

I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE..... I JUST WISH IT COME UP SOON WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE.......
IT SO EXCITING!!

I'm just kind of hoping the real world gets cooler and phases out the need for video games...intergalactic wars and what not.

I dunno. I'm not so sure intergalactic wars etc. would be quite as fun in real life.

wow all these futuristic games already huh, well i prefer futuristic games with life like graphics and physics and lighting, but for now a chasing pacman game will be good

hahahhahahhahaahhahahah im asian myself but i dont like warcraft and dont play games for days

I am hoping that it won’t be to long till we can just build an extra room onto our houses that is like a holodeck, where you are in the action. That would be the most amazing thing. And it might cure childhood obesity... Can you imagine? You walk in and want to play, say a baseball game. You can really walk up to bat in Fenway Park and look 360 degrees and see all the crazy fans, cameras.... Or a war game that gives you the full experience of the battle field... minus the death, injury, fear, but you might walk away with a little shell shock. haha. Maybe have a suit you can were that reacts to the environment in the game. If you get shot... it hurts a little in that area, or it won’t let you move that limb.... you have to really call for a medic in order to heal back up... anyways, it’s just an idea... Lot of technology involved... but maybe one day.

Yeah. But the problem with the virtual reality 'room' is that it would be bloody expensive. And you'd keep on running into walls all the time.

Being able to interface your brain directly with the system would be trickier but more practical in the long run.

I agree with you completely that brain interface directly would be the better method... having said that, the cost would be much more tremendous and the technology is much farther into the future... so till that point, maybe we could just have a room. The reason I say its a much more tremendous cost is that each persons brain is different, so you may have to have the system made for your brain alone... Unless you are just hoping to plug into a certain cortex... But then you wouldn't have all the senses involved.... I can't say cause its been about 3 years since I have studied the brain... Like I said though, you are right, the future of gaming technology would be to play the game in you mind. Good Post.

yes, maybe one day, though i wil probably be dead by then

hahahahahahaha
their motto: play more, life is short

i also like game that involed lots of movemnt (make real live action kingdoms hearts games) (omg heartless attack)

Yeah. Probably a fair way off.

But I get heartened by the research carried out in helping people with physical disabilities. I remember reading of an experiment where scientists were able to get people to see with their tounge. So it does seem possible to rewire the way the brain receives input. Of course, there are also cases of artificial limbs being moved with a person's mind.

I mean, it's far from being able to send information to your brain across your computer network or anything remotely like that. But it might be a step towards some future way to get basic visual and movement response that could be used to replace a monitor and gamepad.

Anyway, the impact on people with physical disabilities is obviously more important. But would be nice to also advance gaming as an offshoot of the technology.

I was even impressed with the Nintendo Wii controller. Now, if we could actually move things with our mind. That would be the big step towards some really good virtual reality.

then it will soon be possible to travel places in your head

I play Wow, and I've played since 2005. Most of those deaths come from other Korean MMOs. There have been no deaths officially linked to WoW itself.

Now, emotional drama, that's different. People here and everywhere in the world get addicted to games in some way. Look at computer solitaire or video gambling machines. People also get addicted to TV and pretty much anything, it's a hobby.

I'm worried for when games really do intercede human life. When will we marry a video game character? Can there be simulated sexual release, what are the future possibilities? It seems to me that games will take on a more social structure until it IS the social structure.

lol, yea like a porno game, where you hook up and have sex, ohh that will get soo many guys

Sad to say, there is a pay to play Adult Fantasy MMO . I won't link it or mention names but you see ads on certain "sites" .

I think it's not unusual for someone who might have sexual insecurities, they may become more accepting of themselves in that situation. Even virtual selves have self identifaction, though creepy as it might be.