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Justisaur  <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am rather awed by The Crew's rendition of USA.  It's got enough of 
>each of the major cities to feel like a bit of being there, obviously 
>it's much smaller as you can drive across the country in a couple hours 
>at 120mph, but it's very nice to just drive around those places.

Yah, it does a pretty good job of representing the USA, better than I
would have expected.

>Where will we be going in the future?  I don't know, there was that 
>whole augmented reality thing (pokeman) that seemed like it was big last 
>year, but I haven't heard a peep about anymore.

I don't know about augmented reality in general, but Pokemon Go is
still pretty big.  It's long past its over hyped stage, so it's no
longer making headlines any more, but I still hear things about it.
The latest news story was fairly widely reported.  They had server
problems at some Pokemon Go convention and had to issue refunds.

>VR?  Oculous said it's 
>not selling enough to keep on, I think it's still too far out with too 
>many problems, it hasn't gone beyond toy to gaming yet.

The only thing that makes me think that virtual reality has a future is
the fact that the constant stream of new VR-only games being released
on Steam hasn't stopped.  I mean if all these people are betting their
own money like this on VR, then there must be something to it, right?
More likely though is this is just going to be further evidence supporting
something I've long suspected to be true: the games industry as a whole
destroys more wealth than it creates.

>Maybe someday we'll get to a 
>Holodeck where you can run around and apparently swing a sword at a 
>dragon, fence with a dark knight etc. but it still seems like at least 
>20 years or more off.

Eh.. sounds exhausting.  Like all those motion controlled Wii games that
having you waving your arms all around but worse.

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