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The desperate cries of our enemies. In all seriousness, I think video games will be even bigger than they are today. Instead of fixed characters, they will hav
by dictum 13y ago
The desperate cries of our enemies.
In all seriousness, I think video games will be even bigger than they are today. Instead of fixed characters, they will have people you know—friends, relatives, people you dislike, etc—generated through analysis of pictures and video of them.
This will lead to something of a moral panic when people grasp that they can't keep someone from having them as a characters in a game.
A similar thing will happen to porn, feeding into the moral panic.
- cliffu 13y agoForget the moral panic, generative porn is a legal minefield; use one 17.99-year-old's image and you're a (probably undeservedly) sex felon. Other accidents could deservedly make you a sex felon.
- VLM 13y agoAh the headlines will be entertaining, but what about more practical closer to home problems? The wife finds out I generated a pr0n CGI video of her best friend. Or worse... her sister... There's a classic Star Trek TNG holodeck episode about ... getting busted for generating a G rated but on the way to pr0n of counselor troi. "I am the goddess of love" or something, and he gets busted, awkward all around.
- VLM 13y agoThat would be interesting for video games and pr0n, but why not apply that tech to plain ole "womens drama TV show"? Oh wait we already have that... My wife already "watches" TV while she holds her tablet and scrolls thru facebook and whichever is more interesting get the attention. Why watch a reality TV gameshow/drama about say... some dude getting married, when you can watch a real world version play out live on facebook today? I'm not kidding about this. We're about one, maybe two, "innovations" away from facebook (or equiv social network) replacing most "big network TV". So theoretical viewer (perhaps my daughter) clicks certain checkboxes and dropdowns on a web page and then some youtube quality CGI video of some girl she knows meets some boy and there's a teen pregnancy and then tragically one of the CGI characters... Or rather than your social network, you get to pick "stars".
- inthewind 13y agoPerhaps there's the idea that we'll just tag along and jump onto other people's google glass, a group of you could join one climber, more HUD broadcasting, rather than the current crop of reality TV. It could be interactive, hangout with your friends with one or two of you in a physical location. A rock climber could sell their live experience.
- VLM 13y agoYou're probably onto a good future (startup?) idea. I could also see a startup doing some kind of glass thing for career counseling, to give the real story. I've watched a couple kind of cheesy Mt Everest documentaries. I would pay some $ to defer expenses for the unfiltered experience of a real live mountain climber. Maybe not a huge amount but certainly in the range of pay per view. Please, no soundtrack, no voiceover narrator, no team of yelling sportscaster personalities. Kind of like the difference between watching a sports event on TV and being there watching live. Or like the difference between Japan Ninja Warrior which was cool and USA American Ninja Warrior which is intolerable.