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This is a sign of things to come. The gaming industry will in the future look to close the current physical gap that exists between the game player and the game itself. The distance between the game console, the monitor and the game player needs to be condensed to the point that the player is inside the game and 'experiencing' it. We are already seeing early attempts at this ranging from 3D to vision goggles offering huge immersion screens, to virtual world realities, to this, the first headset that looks to bridge the 'magic gap'. Photographs of neurons connected to silicon chips already exist, where the brains own natural electrochemical impulses go on to produce a new dimension in intelligence and ability. The blind will see again once the optic nerve develops an exterior artificial input through a biomechanical interface. What would stop this interface from being utilised by the gaming industry to introduce new artificial environments to the consciousness? or to educational faculties enabling an individual to databases of information existing externally but being available 'internally'. Of course there will be panic when people starting to consider the military applications and will Orwell's Thought Crime become a reality if thought patterns can be empirically defined and displayed in the New Courts of Law via reverse technology? Films have dabbled with these technologies for decades, think Brainstorm with Christopher Walken or Johnny Neumonic with Keanu/Neo or eXistenZ. But this I believe is the future, and who knows, perhaps we are already there in a virtual game slowly discovering how we got here!

This is a sign of things to come. The gaming industry will in the future look to close the current physical gap that exists between the game player and the game itself. The distance between the game console, the monitor and the game player needs to be condensed to the point that the player is inside the game and 'experiencing' it. We are already seeing early attempts at this ranging from 3D to vision goggles offering huge immersion screens, to virtual world realities, to this, the first headset that looks to bridge the 'magic gap'. Photographs of neurons connected to silicon chips already exist, where the brains own natural electrochemical impulses go on to produce a new dimension in intelligence and ability. The blind will see again once the optic nerve develops an exterior artificial input through a biomechanical interface. What would stop this interface from being utilised by the gaming industry to introduce new artificial environments to the consciousness? or to educational faculties enabling an individual to databases of information existing externally but being available 'internally'. Of course there will be panic when people starting to consider the military applications and will Orwell's Thought Crime become a reality if thought patterns can be empirically defined and displayed in the New Courts of Law via reverse technology? Films have dabbled with these technologies for decades, think Brainstorm with Christopher Walken or Johnny Neumonic with Keanu/Neo or eXistenZ. But this I believe is the future, and who knows, perhaps we are already there in a virtual game slowly discovering how we got here!