Getting back to the main point, what do we think games will be like in 10 years?

To be honest, 10 years flies by (it is 10 years in Sept since I started uni, and it feels like last week). In that time, I haven't noticed a massive update in gaming. Sure, graphics are fantastic now, but I remember playing Nascar and Duke Nukem on the networked PCs at uni in 1992/93 (486 DX2's - WOW!! ) and the graphics back then seemed excellent - more of a wow factor compared to my Amiga at the time. Although graphics and games have come a long way since then, they haven't come a remarkable distance.

So in another 10 years, do we really think we will be able to play photo-realistic games with no slow-down, lag etc, and using VR headsets etc?

I think not - IMHO I think it will gradually get better, and keep moving up through the next gen systems at a slow pace. My prediction is that in 10 years, games will have almost photoreal graphics, and we may have a few smart gadgets.

Lets hope the gameplay stays as the focus.

DW

 

Yeah exactly - I was reading some comments by DavidRB and he mentioned he wanted to be playing a game on some HUGE wall,etc... but it just doesn't work like that.

Thinking back 10 years ago, the games of today are nothing like as advanced as I'd hope they'd be. We have come a long way in some respects but not others. I remember playing Wolfenstein and thinking - wow, in 10 years things will be photorealistic!

Although doubling in performance back then meant you could go leap from a DX266 to a Pentium system, now doubling means 2GHz CPU, then onwards, which I'm sure will become big leaps at a time.

I wonder if intel are starting to take more than a passing glimpse at what NVidia are up to ? Like I said before, you may see NVidia evolve into something like an Intel Corp if they keep progressing as they are.

 

Hmmmmm....interesting debate

10 years time, I expect to be playing games surpassing the quality of Monsters Inc, Toy Story, etc, etc

Anyone ever tried running a true 3D raytracing package, now THAT shows just how slow these things (computers) are

Software will ALWAYS outperform hardware, FACT !!!

 

When im using 3D Studio max that takes years to render am wishing id gone dual processor now

 

nah mate, you just need one of these puppies:
http://www.sgi.com/visualization/onyx/3000/ir3/



[Edited by DazV - 3/22/2002 4:29:52 PM]

 

think i could live in it, CPU keep me warm, er..... fan bit fresh air, spaceous

 

Just searching for something and came across this. 6 years has passed and not that much has actually changed.

Steve

 

apart from they were soooooo wrong about online gaming

 

This is the future of gaming

YouTube - Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

 

Fascinating and amazing !!

 

**** me, how cool is that? Now that's the sort of thing I'd like to see in games!

Geezer

 

It's featured in Boom Blox as an easter egg apparently.

 

impressed with the vr tracking

 

Personally I agree that the time will come when a CPU is powerful enough to run anything it wants with spare capacity. I also believe that in say, 20 years time this computer won't be at your desk but will be hosted by the software provider and homes will just purely have dumb terminals.
This puts and end to piracy, every software companies dream. Microsoft could probably power every machine and package running in the world from a handfull of arrays around the globe.

 

Personally I think that regardless of the advance of technology, any new CPU will never be powerful enough. Developers will just continue to demand more from them. I don't see this trend ever stopping. Software will just get more demanding.

 

The day will come where computing power reaches close to infinite.

 

I simply don't believe that, at least not within our lifetimes.

Even the most powerful supercomputers of today are a fraction of the power of the human brain. To get to that level of computing power a completely new approach to chip design will be required, probably using some sort of organic approach. Current techniques use to much energy and emit too much heat for that to be even considered at the moment.

Of course as soon as you start introducing organics into the mix, you start having to think about ethics as well, and what happens if they get a bit too clever. "What are you doing dave?"

 

Personally, I think that it will end up as a huge computer with a deep voice, run by people, who will, ultimately, turn into mice and build a planet sized computer.....

Geezer

P.S. and it will get destroyed to make way for a galactic highway

 

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Well quantum computers are the next setp and we are gerring closer with every passing year, still a while off yet but it's been gathering pace over the years and is starting to look like a viable prospect.

It's funny how simon mentions ray tracing as that is what intel is currently pushing with their 8 core nehalem cpu.

YouTube - Intel Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo.

 

We are approaching the singularity, as soon as computers are powerful enough to become selfaware and develop themselves..... we're boned!

 

I wasn't thinking in our lifetimes.

 

The original post was about the next 10 years

 

 

With only 3.5 years left!

Steve