Tuesday, February 27, 2007

midterm proposal

I want to focus on technology as a whole in the gaming industry. how technology has impacted our lives in virtual reality and what people get out of it. another thing is that i want to be able to tell the future with gaming technology, what to expect and what to learn from. There are two different worlds for gaming, virtual and the real world. i find it interesting that we went from have a ball that was lit up on the screeen going back and forth called pong to online gaming and mind blowing consoles like ps3 and xbox 360, the next generation consoles. Looking and the graphics from Ps2 and xbox they are a great improvement from the past consoles, the regular playstation and super nintendo. That has only been 10-15 years and now you can play online with people all over the world and much better graphics than ever before. Ps3 and Xbox360 compared to Ps2 and Xbox is also incredible. Ps2 has been out for 3-4 years and seeing the graphic on the new console is impressive. I want to focus on how gaming has impacted our lives through technology and how it has improved over the years.

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People play games, design games and love games. Some people dont even play games and know what to do with a game. There are all sorts of games ranging from video games to computer games, even portables. Throughout gaming history, games have made a trumendous impact on society. Technology has attracted more people to use their fingures and brains and kept people at their T.V.s for hours. The more realistic a game looks the more interesting it can be. Virtual reality and reality itself differ greatly and technology improving at great amounts everytime we breathe in air may make virtual reality seem real in a way of people actually becoming part of the gaming world. As the world changes, technology changes, but technology changes at a much faster pace. The gaming today is much more different than what it was 20-25 years ago and continues to be more realistic and may take over the real world.
In the future there will be more gamers and eventually everyone maybe involved in the virtual reality. it is hard to say what will be next, whether it is flying in the air in virtual reality to actually being placed in the world and fighting off enemies to get the mind blowing affect. Could your brain handle the mind altering state by stepping into the matrix.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

NPR special assign. #3

"Another aspect of their identity being in a virtual world comes from a person's real world." ever since Atari cameout it has drivin people to play more and more video games and branched off from there, even earlier concoles or computer games. in the NPR talk it was very interesting how they talk about online gaming and how it affected our society in a positive way. one of the interviewers or talk show people mentioned how video gaming is a male dominant hooby and that through the years to the present day more females are experiencing with video games. they mentioned that about 70 percent of male players use female characters in online gaming. Now that online gaming has come into our world and people from all over the world play together and communicate with each other. The NPR people said that online gaming helps people interact with each other especially if they are a "lonely" person. People become friends, are nice to each other, hell they even meet up sometimes.

I play Socom Combined Assualt online with a whole bunch of people. there are a lot of nice people and people you cant stand. The main idea is that when i play there are a lot of people who are married that play and i know of people play socom at the age of 40 even. this just shows how addicting games can get and that online gaming is a very popular virtual world to evey gamer. Now that video gaming is becoming more popular because of a varity of different thing you can do like online and such catches the peoples eye. When they were talking about how more and more people are becoming involved, was becasue i think technology is a big part of that and also how online gaming has become a huge success. Eventually we will be able to physically go into the virtual world, well not literally, but technology will have more and more realistic images and graphics that we will almost be caught in the act of the virtual real world instead of just the virtual world.