The Future Is… In the Future!
The Microsoft Surface is totally neat, but I’m not sure how practical it will be or when it will become practical. I can already imagine making some games specifically for the Surface, but many current games will totally suck on it. Not to mention the rumored price tag is in the $5000-$10000 range, so I won’t be getting one any time soon. The future of interesting computing that may or may not catch on is supposed to come out in Winter 2007, and I’m pretty excited to look at my shiny wedding pictures on it (which also is in the future… I’m like a prophet).
While in a rougher draft, I like the tech displayed here by Sony better.
These should be in every restaurant on the planet.
Porn ftw.
“We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.”
-Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space
I don’t see these as a game platform.
Seems like a retail type product.
Harrah’s are supposed to use them so you can find out whats going on at all there casino’s in the area.
This will bring adult entertainment to a whole new interactive level.
I see these as an incredible new gaming platform for a lot of things we couldn’t quite accomplish before. For example, digital versions of every board game EVER. Think of playing Monopoly on this with a bunch of people crowded around it, or backgammon, or just about any other board game. Could be really fun stuff.
Definitely a game platform, but not in the MMORPG sense. More casual-games kind of fare, at least at first.
Imagine a turn-based strategy (or heck, even an RTS) played on one of these babies though, with a combination of voice commands and touch-screen interfaces. That’d be megacool. It would be tough to do but I could totally see versions of things like Warhammer 40k (the tabletop miniatures game) done this way.
I never really thought about board games. I like that idea.
I had thought about the RTS idea but I’m not sure about it. Still prefer my mouse and keyboard.
Looks promising, but the first thing I thought of “Oops, I spilled some soda on it… wait, all my files are washing into the trash! Nooooooo!”
RTS, Strategery and board games will be great on it tho. Imagine playing some Catan on that thing!