A Way Ahead To The New Gaming Technologies
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The most technologically advanced sector, the gaming sector, has traversed miles of innovations in adding contentful story-telling combined with an eye boggling realism. Construing to that, the overall size of the game installation also continues to escalate to a level where 100 GB seems to be quite normal.
Radical changes to the matter of realism added up with the elements of advancements, be it graphical enhancements or AI used within the consoles, gaming deals with a constant growth. Looking few years back in 2016, the global games market had been with a YoY growth of around 9% from $99.6 Billion to an estimated $159.3 Billion revenues in 2020.
GAMING TECHNOLOGIES
Cloud Gaming Technology
Cloud gaming services is just beginning its popularity with more tweaks remaining to be instilled for better performance. With the advent Google Stadia available for few listed countries, there has been leading kick offs from other gaming platforms into reinventing such a service availability. Cloud gaming is rushing towards its popularity with the cheap subscriptions available.
Acquiring PC hardwares to own, requires huge amount of spending to experience ultimate gaming with ultra graphical tweaks. However, cloud gaming services excludes such spending into a monthly subscription where you may connect your existing gaming platform accounts as Steam, Origin, Epic Games Store, and others - to enable the gaming experience even on a moderate PC hardware only with the requirement of a high speed internet.
Services suggest that by eliminating the need for players to buy a console or high-end gaming PC, lower-income consumers will be better able to participate, growing the number of players.
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) is an advanced technology which has unveiled its potential in various other fields apart from gaming as - Medical, Education, In-job skill development and others. It is through the virtual simulation of environment with the gamers placed to experience them as if real, the virtual reality adds much more to the gaming experience in exploring ways of entertaining gameplay.
VR compatible headsets includes high end detailed gaming on PCs and laptops. Blending with a first person experience, VR allocates gamers in a real-time simulation with controllers, headset, treadmills and headphones. It was first kick started with the founding of Oculus VR in 2012 by Palmer Freeman Luckey which was later acquired by Facebook Inc. astonishing Mark Zuckerberg to quote,
one of the coolest things I've ever seen... Imagine enjoying a court-side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face - just by putting on goggles in your home.
Game Engines
Game Engines devises the platform for such excellent gaming titles and many other indie titles that are being awarded for their best narration or storyline. With advancing years, gaming development has enhanced with the integration of AI which can detect body movements and lip syncs to provide a cutting edge experience to next-gen gaming. Engines like Unreal Engine, Unity, CryEngine and others provide a seemless environment for developers along with other engines - advanced facial expression detection as JALI Research Inc., which has been used in the upcoming game - Cyberpunk 2077.
A game engine provides components as - Game programming, Game Rendering with 3D graphical enhancements, Audio Engine, Physics Engine to add on realism of interacting with the gaming environment following the laws of physics, and an AI enabling a complete game design and development.
Voice recognition
In-built Natural Language Processing within the games would enhance the experience of the gamers. However, such an in-game technology is still in development and modifications as enabling an artificial environement to produce an experience according to the speech has its raising complexity.
Creating a successful game is itself a tough employment for the game devs with strenous involvement of parties to incorporate immersion of realism. Alongside, voice recognition is an additional complexity to the development as it requires ample trainings to enable such processing in various situation within a game. Google Stadia has been working on such to integrate Google Assistant features within the game to provide such experience, however, such are limited to conversing with players in-game and changing the game settings.
Ubisoft and IBM are working in partnership to enable such with a virtual reality speech sandbox which has been deferred in development. It aims to create a "richly interactive" environment, providing voice command service to "Watson Speech-to-Text" in converting the audio to text.