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Chaoss
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12 years ago

The future of computing, tech and gaming in the year 2022

What are your guys predictions on the future of computers, gaming tech and technology in general?

I believe we are at a turning point with computing tech, it has been quite stagnant in the last couple of years and we've only seen minor boosts in performance and speed. We are still stuck at around 3Ghz-ish and still mostly stuck at 4 cores, with 6 and 8 being high end. Virtual reality was at a stand still and even a decline up until the Oculus Rift started really gaining popularity.

My prediction is that OLED and/or QDOT displays will be the driving force behind all display technology, much like LCD is today. LCD will feel as aged and kludgy as CRT's feel today, however they will rectify the issues that came with LCD tech such as color accuracy, viewing angles and how fragile they are.

Computers, and indeed most computing tech is much cheaper than it is today. We still use desktops (PC is still not dead), a form of laptops that double as tablets and phones. But consoles and gaming have harmonized into VR, which is now accessible from nearly all platforms.

Resolutions won't matter the way they do today, operating systems and indeed pretty much everything else will be resolution independent, with actual resolutions in the 4k - 8k range (2k for tiny screens, 4k for smaller screens, 8k for larger).

I believe web 3.0 will be standard and will incorporate (or actually be) virtual reality based. Virtual worlds won't be run by corporations like Second Life is today, but more like the internet is.

Virtual Reality will still feel virtual but will be fully immersive, with almost all senses emulated in some sense. Touch will still be a tricky one to conquer but with much of the gaming community and lots of businesses starting up in VR companies will be scrambling to come up with all sorts of creative solutions.

What are your predictions?

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  • Jose's avatar
    Jose
    Heroic Explorer
    Wearable computers will be the norm, I believe.

    I imagine all the "pocket computers" will be as fast as the high-end desktop machine today. (Higher-end desktop machines will still exist for producers and developers, i.e. people who make things).

    Most of the things we do today on computers will be encapsulated by this new, really small, really fast, wearable pocket computer. No more desktops, no more game consoles. Everything will be done with these really fast and tiny portable computers.

    And then further into the future beyond 2022, these tiny pocket computers will get smaller and will become implantable and will interface with the human body. Think human augmentation similar to Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
  • Kirito's avatar
    Kirito
    Honored Guest
    "Chaoss" wrote:
    What are your guys predictions on the future of computers, gaming tech and technology in general?

    I believe we are at a turning point with computing tech, it has been quite stagnant in the last couple of years and we've only seen minor boosts in performance and speed. We are still stuck at around 3Ghz-ish and still mostly stuck at 4 cores, with 6 and 8 being high end. Virtual reality was at a stand still and even a decline up until the Oculus Rift started really gaining popularity.

    My prediction is that OLED and/or QDOT displays will be the driving force behind all display technology, much like LCD is today. LCD will feel as aged and kludgy as CRT's feel today, however they will rectify the issues that came with LCD tech such as color accuracy, viewing angles and how fragile they are.

    Computers, and indeed most computing tech is much cheaper than it is today. We still use desktops (PC is still not dead), a form of laptops that double as tablets and phones. But consoles and gaming have harmonized into VR, which is now accessible from nearly all platforms.

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    Resolutions won't matter the way they do today, operating systems and indeed pretty much everything else will be resolution independent, with actual resolutions in the 4k - 8k range (2k for tiny screens, 4k for smaller screens, 8k for larger).

    I believe web 3.0 will be standard and will incorporate (or actually be) virtual reality based. Virtual worlds won't be run by corporations like Second Life is today, but more like the internet is.

    Virtual Reality will still feel virtual but will be fully immersive, with almost all senses emulated in some sense. Touch will still be a tricky one to conquer but with much of the gaming community and lots of businesses starting up in VR companies will be scrambling to come up with all sorts of creative solutions.

    What are your predictions?


    lol dude are u kidding me? XD 2022= SAO 2022 is just a year the whriter choose, it has nothing to do with irl
  • I think that the Memristor (it's a "new" type of electrical component) could really allow great strides in memory performance and could change the industry as we know it.

    The Memristor also has similarities to in how it works and how neurons in the brain work, which could open up the doors for more intelligent systems, think robot cars, planes, trains ect.

    This has good and bad sides, as the jobs people can do that machines cannot will shrink, in theory this could lead to an automated utopia or dystopia.

    But I think there will be a few steps,
    1 VR systems allow people to work remotely.
    2 Manual and hazardous work can be done by VR controlled Robots.
    3 All forms of business move into the VR space.

    But allow companies to capture what they do and train AI/Robots to do the same jobs.

    Thankfully people can still play in VR and therefore we could have a utopian Virtual Reality!
  • It's not like 2022 is "the future", it is just 9 years from now :P

    I believe though that we will have devices with flexible screens, VR will have caught on the gamers and heading to the mainstream people slowly. Holographic imagery will also start to show up. Petaflop personal computing will be commonplace to high end gamers. Most important advance will be that graphics will start to finally feel lifelike. My best bet is that we will use a lot of computing power for animations. For example the program will calculate the position and the pressure of the shoes of a character so that they appear like they are on a real terrain and not diving into the geometry like it happens right now :lol: :lol: :lol:. Also we will FINALLY start building the insides of the models, a human model for example is just a shaded "curtain" he has no heart, no lungs or sometimes even hands and feet when the character wears gloves and shoes! Finally I believe that we will see great advances in AI. We will have not gone to mars yet though, probably for the better as the astronauts will need a good VR system to survive the boredom :lol:
  • barath's avatar
    barath
    Honored Guest
    Have anyone here heard of the 2045 Initiative? There a group made up of some of the smartest people (funded by a Russian Billionaire) on this planet trying to by the year 2035 download the human consciousness into a robotic avatar. And by 2025 they want to be able to transplant a human brain into a robotic Avatar. So we might not even need VR since if we can simply hook up the human brain to a computer we could just download and play the game in sort of a dream like state. lol Anyways these next 10 years or so really do hold some amazing advancements in technology. I really hope since Quantum computing is here that a consumer model will be for sale in the next 10-20 years.
  • barath's avatar
    barath
    Honored Guest
    "mstdesigns" wrote:
    We will have not gone to mars yet though, probably for the better as the astronauts will need a good VR system to survive the boredom :lol:


    Actually they already have a plan to go to mars here in the next few years. A group in Russia actually isolated themselves in a ship replica for a year or so and survived all the "boredom" since well some people love being alone for long periods of time. Also a Reality TV show is going to in by 2023 start sending groups of 5 people to mars on a 1 way trip to live there.
  • I don't believe Mars One will succeed in the timeframe they suggest, maybe mid to late 2020s.

    "barath" wrote:
    Have anyone here heard of the 2045 Initiative? There a group made up of some of the smartest people (funded by a Russian Billionaire) on this planet trying to by the year 2035 download the human consciousness into a robotic avatar. And by 2025 they want to be able to transplant a human brain into a robotic Avatar. So we might not even need VR since if we can simply hook up the human brain to a computer we could just download and play the game in sort of a dream like state. lol Anyways these next 10 years or so really do hold some amazing advancements in technology. I really hope since Quantum computing is here that a consumer model will be for sale in the next 10-20 years.


    I don't believe in quantum computing either, and if we succeed to make that beast not needing enormous amounts of cooling It would be really long term. A photon computer (a computer that uses light) running at petaherz frequencies (the frequency of visible light) would be able to give us 100,000,000x the computing power of today, and can really be done in the next 15-20 years. 100 million times faster computers would really make enormous and detailed VR worlds as well as advanced AI real :D
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    i can't project ahead too many years, but this guy can, here's his thoughts!