AR games vs VR games. I feel another Rocksmith situation is inevitable
If anyone has heard of Rocksmith then you might have heard that it's "the fastest way to learn guitar." While that might not be true, I think it is. But whenever I sign into my XBox One and start practicing guitar, my real life friends that happen to be in the cyber realm at the same time, say shit like "Rocksmith is silly." I've come to understand that this is most often a simple case of denial. It is a very easy way to make sucking at something tolerable and even fun. But as a whole... we are STILL too lazy to support such a system. We peak at games like Guitar Hero. Sales and popularity have shown this. Real world skills, I'm talking skills that can be acquired in a game and used outside of it, are not popular.
I see the potential for AR games that literally provide a Halo-like interface to users, fake guns that have precise aim, way better location-based geo-tagging (it is currently blowing my mind I am not finding myself in situations where I see another guy in a suit charging me in a business district and realizing, 'oh shit... need to bail...' I'm in our huge game of app-facilitated tag, he must be it)... I just see AR activities providing way more opportunity in connecting physically engaging activities than VR activities in a single room... But I see these roomed-in activities being WAY more popular than the one's requiring physical activity.
For one, accessibility. Not everyone is trying to head out into the neighborhood after work to run around playing a real life game of oddball. But is there opportunity at all? I know there are many Americans that can chase me around a COD map like an olympic jogger (or whatever they're called) which would probably more often than not result in that person eating my dust. And I'm no gym rat. Just average. But, I see bad players all of a sudden becoming the good players in cases. Coordination in sets of hands not reflecting general bodily coordination in others. A lot of deterrents for current gamers.
So is AR another Rocksmith strictly when it comes to video game play. AR in other uses is not being considered.