• Old School

  

  Written by Zeromage 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: October 18, 2007

  I wore my power glove all the time when I had one. I used to wear it hiking, driving, and I even wore it on a date once. Scared the crap out of the girl.

  Video games are in a way a virtual reality. Look how many people sit down at home and enter into some sort of pixilated world for the evening, forgetting their troubles. There is an MMO for almost every type of person out there. With the online play for the consoles, everyone can enter their world, not just computer geeks.

  Last week I had a really great day because I blew up Han Solo with a rocket launcher as Boba Fett in SW:BF2. That made my day. My team was happy and expressed this to me, despite them being on the farside of the world. Something that doesn’t exist in real life really gave me a great day.

  We might not be living with VR where our every movement is digitized and expressed in a game. There’d be almost nothing virtual about that other than being in an electronic world. How many obese people would want to be themselves in a digital world having to make the motions of storming a bunker, diving for cover, entering a dungeon crawl, etc etc all in their living room? Not too many. We enter these game worlds to escape the physical limitations we have in rl, not be tied down by them.

  I don’t know how it is in other countries, but in the grand ole usa, video gaming is the past time of choice for little kids. Studies also say kids are more overweight now than ever before. There are other forces at work making kids fat besides video games, true. My point is more and more people are entering into the pixel world at a younger age, growing up with social interaction over an electronic medium. Can aim be a virtual conversation? Can kids making friends over myspace count their buddies as real friends?

  Virtual reality needs to be redefined. It’s not that tron like vision we had in the past. I don’t think its going to be as glorious as we all hoped either.

  If that exorcist I bumped into in 2001 hadn’t told me evil spirits possessed my power glove, I’d be wearing it right now. Later

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