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What could the future of gaming look like?

    What does gaming mean to us today? What will gaming mean to us in 10 years? Will gaming still be around in 100 years or will we all have found a new form of entertainment? These are all questions that some gamers and developers (like myself), think about from time to time. Like all forms of art and media, things change and adapt in ways that generally affect them positively. For gaming, I imagine that as computer graphics, technology, and changing demands from gamers start to change, gaming will become more complex and more enjoyable as time passes.

    As gaming begins to venture into new mediums and technological marvels, one that stands out as being both realistic and feasible is virtual reality (VR for short). VR gaming started making major strides during the 1990s and has since grown into one of the most profitable and most technologically advanced ways to game currently, with HTC, Meta (previously Oculus) and PlayStation VR being the most common ways gamers can experience gaming in virtual reality from the comfort of their own homes. I personally own both an HTC Vive OG and a Meta Quest 2, and they have given me ways of socializing with friends and participating in unique experiences I've never seen before, that I can say with certainty, VR will only continue to evolve in ways that will not only lift gaming to heights, but technology as a whole. 

    It's a fact that almost everyone out of the billions of humans on the planet has mobile smartphones, and thankfully gaming is fully possible on them thanks to the advances in mobile processors and graphical improvements. 
With an industry that brought in close to $124 billion 
in 2023, it's safe to say that as mobile phones become faster, more powerful and more efficient, games will be improved alongside them. Right now companies like Nvidia are experimenting with cloud streaming PC games to mobile devices, but I believe that soon Phones will become powerful enough to be able to run a wider range of games and experiences without having to make the games run on smaller resolutions and lower quality textures. It just makes sense that as people become more dependent on their phones to do advanced things games will advance alongside it.

    The future of gaming doesn't have to be a scary thing. While some wish that gaming be eradicated from the Earth and others don't want to do anything else in life but play video games, society and people will always find a new way to entertain themselves and find new and exciting ways to do extravagant things, and at the current moment, it seems like gaming is the perfect fit for our modern world.


Research Sources: 
- Maryville University. “Future of Video Games: Trends, Technology, and Types.” Maryville Online, 4 Mar. 2021, online.maryville.edu/blog/future-of-video-games/.
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