We have seen many kinds of technology develop over the years. Touchpanels, motion control, voice control and the simple click with a controller.
I use these kinds of interaction every day of my life. As a gamer, this have been the way forward since the dawn of gaming. Nintendo even tried to create motion control back in the 80's by creating the Power Glove for the NES.
Technology are not used manely for one purpose anymore. An example is the Kinect, developed by Microsoft for their console Xbox 360. The Kinect can be used in order to control machines, create virtual environments and for all sorts of non-gaming purposes. The line between what is for entertainment and what is for the benefit of mankind got broken a long time ago. Maybe before video gaming even began.
As a gamer, and a man who is planning to educate myself in order to create games, I think we are reaching a dangerous moral crossroad.
The technology we are developing are one step from creating virtual reality, and my fear is that it's not only the line between entertainment and benefit that are being crossed. In our society, we are already experiencing individuals who try to escape reality through games. When we are so close to breaking this line, will we experience people who don't even want to live the real life anymore? And the moral question is, should we care?
I want to design games in the future, but do I really want to design a game, which can and will rob many people of their sense of reality? I know why many of my friends and family don't see any problems, but as one of those who may be responsible for many people locking themselfes out of the society, can I just sit back and say i don't care?
In my opinion, we have to find a way that doesn't involve creating technology that can give you the experience of "real life". Because of this, I'm both for and against technology as the Oculus Rift. You may not be able to feel the game physically, but as they say, the eyes can deceive the rest of the body.
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