From whenever virtual reality games (The games with the visor that presents a screen in front of your face) were invented to the new wii, companies have been trying to provide a product that a person can fully interact with. I don't think this will take over interactive media as photography never took over other forms of art. I think there is just an interest in how real of an experience someone can have without leaving their living room. I don't personally have any interest in never leaving my house but I guess some people would rather be able to "bowl" or "box" in front of their TV at their convenience. I've also never seen a nintendo displayed in a gallery.
I personally want to see an interface that allows us to create virtual worlds to our hearts content, and that these "worlds" expand beyond the confines of just video games.
I wouldn't want to create virtual, living societies—humanity has enough problems on its own. What I DO want to see is us explore aesthetic possibilities in a virtual world that ultimately has an artistic goal. For me, when I write (I write a lot of stories), the story is pretty much about the world and how the world functions. But words aren't visual—they're only connotative and, at times, denotative. But I want to fully immerse myself in a world of not just my creation, but of other people's creation too. So it becomes a communal exploration of aesthetic, and in the effort to produce the aesthetic, a knowledge base is created. According to the design of the interface, the knowledge base can correlate with non-virtual reality, so the "interface" becomes educational as well as artistic.
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From whenever virtual reality games (The games with the visor that presents a screen in front of your face) were invented to the new wii, companies have been trying to provide a product that a person can fully interact with. I don't think this will take over interactive media as photography never took over other forms of art. I think there is just an interest in how real of an experience someone can have without leaving their living room. I don't personally have any interest in never leaving my house but I guess some people would rather be able to "bowl" or "box" in front of their TV at their convenience. I've also never seen a nintendo displayed in a gallery.
I personally want to see an interface that allows us to create virtual worlds to our hearts content, and that these "worlds" expand beyond the confines of just video games.
I wouldn't want to create virtual, living societies—humanity has enough problems on its own. What I DO want to see is us explore aesthetic possibilities in a virtual world that ultimately has an artistic goal. For me, when I write (I write a lot of stories), the story is pretty much about the world and how the world functions. But words aren't visual—they're only connotative and, at times, denotative. But I want to fully immerse myself in a world of not just my creation, but of other people's creation too. So it becomes a communal exploration of aesthetic, and in the effort to produce the aesthetic, a knowledge base is created. According to the design of the interface, the knowledge base can correlate with non-virtual reality, so the "interface" becomes educational as well as artistic.
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