[GSV]Lemming;29773124 said:
I think AR is the future, as it allows people to build in games/experiences to their everyday humdrum life, just like phones allowing social media interaction alongside work.
Pokemon GO is likely just the start.
Can you imagine sat on the tube managing an empire in space suspended before your eyes in the carriage.
Can you imagine CS in your own home, terrorists throughout the house, and using a plastic gun/phone combo, or even google glass type lenses to 'see' them as you hunt them down.
Can you imagine managing virtual soldiers on your desk battlefield while you beaver away mindlessly on the phone on a service desk.
Full VR at home will have a place too, but will likely be niche in comparison. For full immersion you want to be walking/running outside the game, if you are walking/running inside the game. Currently you cant, so the best games will probably be flight/driving sims where in game you are sat down too.
I agree we aren't there yet, but how big a leap is it to get there for AR, not far I think. Pokemon is the tip of the iceberg, look at the sales, the future looks interesting.
With more AR techie advances perhaps we will one day see something like WOW being played out in the real world, where people can re-skin how they appear to anyone plugged into the game. A walk to the shops will become a fight for life against other players, a drive to work in a self driving car an opportunity to relive world of tanks in your turret.
Once you can smoothly 'place' something virtual into the real world the opportunities are limitless.
Can you imagine shaking a controller at the screen and seeing a guy on screen boxing... amazing... right up till you realise it's not actually fun at all, 100million or so people fell for that and promptly stopped playing.
Can I imagine myself skulking around the one small hall and 6 rooms of my house with a plastic toy guy shooting not real people only visible on glasses/headset, no, because that sounds utterly awful. That sounds awful if it was in a park with 100 other people, we actually have a real way to do that, airsoft/paintball which is fun, fake firing at fake or real people out in the real world would be rubbish.
Same goes for managing an empire in AR on the tube, what game will overlay a real world perfectly to the environment you're in? Pokemon go, I've seen lots of adds and stupid gameplay vids but outside of fake throwing a ball at a pokemon I'm honestly not sure what you do afterwords. People are into Pokemon, but I think that gimmick will wear thin very quickly. Currently you have fans of Pokemon playing a real world game, a lot of buzz/hype in media as with the Wii and as such huge amounts of other people downloaded and went out to experience what was going on, but most of them are going to go... you walk miles to catch something, walk miles to catch it then... they'll get bored of it. The big Pokemon fans will play but the others just experiencing what is basically a global event will stop playing quickly.
Most games that have any kind of complexity which Pokenmon Go doesn't have, won't just fit into any real world scenario. There will be some maybe touristy based National treasure type hunts for AR... how good they'll be who knows. Most AR will be based around facts, hence a National treasure game, map on screen rather than constantly looking at your phone, names of buildings, directions to wherever you're going, tourist plug ins for a city so you can maybe activate a tourist audio guide for places you visit. But within that, you'll almost certainly find advertising cropping up.
Interestingly afaik Nintendo actually don't really own much of the Pokemon stuff and really just market it, meaning the stock surge on people playing what is a mobile game not on Nintendo hardware which is free in the first place is... odd.
PS, you can't have an empire in space surrounding yourself on the tube, that is entirely contrary to AR, the game has to match your surroundings effectively or well... you die when you fall off the platform onto the tracks or walk into a road. VR is something where you can put on a headset, block out the real world and can seem to be anywhere regardless of where you really are. It's not entirely practical anytime soon, you won't be playing AAA games with good battery life on a tube, plus you'd probably miss your stop.
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