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Top Technological Advancements Affecting The Videogame Industry

Gaming has been the primary source of entertainment for a lot of people since the pandemic began. Videogames have always been famous among teenagers as well as adults for almost two decades now. Since then we’ve come a long way. With cutting-edge technological advancements, videogames are being made with much better graphics and other aspects to make them seem more realistic. If you are looking to find out what these advancements are and what are the top trends driving the gaming industry, then you are at the right place. Here are some technological advancements affecting the gaming industry.

Face recognition

Unlike classic games like Mega Moolah One, modern games are making use of features like face recognition to further enhance the experience of the user. 3D scanning together with facial recognition allows you to create the avatar of your player to look just like you.

If scanning your face and body to create a replica virtually doesn’t sound very impressive, then this sure will; Intel’s Realsense 3D camera allowed the developers to create games that can read your emotions by scanning around 78 different sectors on a person’s face and adapt accordingly. Reading someone’s emotion through artificial intelligence and changing the game according to it can make the experience so much better.

Voice recognition

Voice recognition has been out there for a while but the gaming industry hasn’t seen much of it until recently. To make the management of a console as easy as possible, manufacturers have started using voice commands as an option to navigate through their menu.

This means that you don’t even need to get up and switch your console or any other device on or off. You can just give a command and it will do it for you. Not only this, but you can use these commands to control your character in a game, use social media, and do a lot of other things by talking to your device’s assistant.

Gestures

In every sci-fi movie, you can see people using gestures. Gestures are nothing but the movement of your body parts to do a certain task. Gestures are really useful to get rid of that tedious controller between you and the device interface.

Intel’s RealSense technology has allowed the development of shooter games that can be played with gestures. Using a 3D camera your body’s movement will interact with your virtual self. By using different points on your hands as a reference you can control all sorts of moves allowed to that player. Again, these kinds of advancements have made games very immersive and a lot of fun to play.

Advancements in graphics

If you look at games that were launched a decade ago, you will see the massive difference in how graphics are dealt with now. We’ve certainly achieved a whole lot if we look at how games were made in 8-bit graphics in the initial days.

Ofcourse, the player model and the environment gives a game its personality. However, it is the lighting and shadows which play a major role in bringing the picture into life. With the introduction of real-time ray tracing and Nvidia’s deep learning super sampling, it feels like you are right inside a game’s environment. If you have the right hardware to support these new graphical advancements your gaming experience becomes so much fluent.

High-definition screens

It makes no sense to play a beautiful game on a decade-old screen. Developers pay special attention to the way how their games will look on different types of screens. A good display can make a huge difference in performance and the feel of the game. High refresh rates and high-resolution screens with a wide variety of color models make the game look just as how the developers have intended it to.

Although most users are still stuck with 1080p gaming, due to budgetary reasons. If you find yourself having a system that can support 4K gaming, you will never be able to go back. 4K means that there are around 4000 pixels on the screen at a time. Although 4K monitors or laptops started at premium pricing, they have seen a steady fall and will be a common commodity among budget gamers soon enough.

Virtual reality

If you are into gaming, then you surely must have heard of virtual reality. Virtual reality is a three dimensional simulation generated by the computer. Virtual reality devices make you feel like you are the character in the game. They react with your movements and gestures through equipment such as gloves or helmets.

Although there are not many quality VR games out there, there will be a lot of games coming out. A huge audience for virtual reality games was made when Half-Life Alyx came out. Virtual reality is the future of the gaming industry and one that doesn’t seem too far.