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Virtual Reality is Pushing Gaming Into Another 'Golden Age': Xbox Co-founder (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the this-is-what-future-holds dept.

From a CNBC report:The Xbox and PS2 were two of the most popular consoles ever and now gaming is entering "another golden age," according to Otto Berkes (a pioneer of the gaming industry), driven by virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI). "One of the aspects of VR that has incredible potential is interaction and communication -- interacting with characters that are both artificial and virtual, being able to blur distance and geography, you can be anywhere and literally in any time," Berkes told CNBC in an interview on Wednesday. "We're entering another golden age of interactive content development."

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  1. Golden ages are driven by great games ... by Ihlosi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Golden ages are driven by great games, not by technology. The technology merely needs to be good enough to allow the games to be realized.

  2. It's now the slog-through-mud age by fyngyrz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly right. The golden age of gaming ended when games moved from real media to interminable downloads before one could even start gaming. They sucked all the fun right out of that balloon. It doesn't help that the new consoles are rarely designed with any serious degree of backward compatibility at this point. They love to make you have to start buying all over again. And enough people keep doing that to encourage this awful behavior.

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