Gaming - The Future Is Bright

Taking a tour of campus today has yielded some incredible results. The tour consisted of looking at different forms of 3D Technology, most of it being immersion and other forms of technology that has been in the works for quite some time, but hasn't been implemented yet. The first thing we witnessed was 4 large movable walls that had images projected too them. Games, Pitches, Artwork, Everything was used with this technology.

The next thing we saw was something I was already familiar with. The Oculus Rift. While built for gaming, it has shown much more potential then just that. It can be used to create an immersive world to be apart of, you can use it to view a movie in an entire different way, heck you can even use it as a simulator for different vehicles. Anyway, this is definitely a very multi-functional piece of technology that would be perfect to implement in so many ways.

Lastly we saw many uses of Augmented Reality (AR). AR has been used in many ways, games has been a large part of it, but we were also shown how it could also be used in gathering information. We could use it to 'scan' objects and gather information about them on the spot rather than look them up on a separate device.


This was astounding to me because I've always been a huge fan of the game industry, and I've always wanted to be apart of it, no matter where it goes. Where is it going? Well pretty much anywhere it wants to is how I feel after today. Virtual and Augmented Reality seems to be what we all focus on when it comes to the gaming industry now, and it's becoming more and more popular as products like the 3DS (AR) and Oculus (VR) hit the mainstream.

How can this benefit me creatively? Well it helps to know what kinds of mediums will be available to create on. As it turns out, you can create real world things and intermix them with graphical things using a phone or other device as the medium. Anything is possible really, and with such a vast array of things that can be done, I'm extremely excited to be apart of this industry.