Oleg's Sims 10 years from now...

[Slechtvalk]

If this will happen:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...duction-supply
US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015

[hellbomber]

in about fifteen years we will be seeing the first cube memory processors.. they will be 3 dimensional architecture that will process and store data on the same nodes..you wont have a hard drive you wont have a processor or memory or gpu.. you will just have a cube chip that fits to your mother board thats it... your cube processor will be able to dynamically change from processing to rendering graphics as needed.. and will store about 1000 terabytes of data.. i should know im on a team that's working on patents right now..

[virre89]

Speaking of the future..

..the ultimate game doesn't have to be a multi-sim of the future. Who said its gonna work out great with a combined tank, flight , inf sim all in one?

First of all you could look at the issues with the concept itself, you're striving to recreate something realistic yet you'd have to have thousands
of people participating at the same time something like an MMO if there are gonna be tanks, planes etc on a very large scale or you'd get an unpopulated world with nothing but landscape.

Secondly the workload for a project like that would be unrealistic and insane to both maintain and create, if the quality bar is --> like BOB, ARMA.
There is no chance in hell to create a fps experience like say Arma or RO on a scale of i.e free-roam Europe and even less so combined with a flight sim of Bob's scale.

An professional detailed map created in Unreal Engine or ID Tech 4 takes around 2 months to create, and how big are they by average.. one town, one battlefield to imagine
that quality on a scale of say the whole Britain or Europe.. well it would require some kinda auto-generating software even in the future because no one has the time, effort or will to model a whole world
even if it's possible by hardware.

Last but not least would it be fun at all? I Seriously doubt it ...

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Soylant Green is People!

(if you don't get this, watch the movie...)

Wasn't that Soylent Red instead ? Watched it too many years ago, but some sequences are memorable ...

Ins

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Wasn't that Soylent Red instead ? Watched it too many years ago, but some sequences are memorable ...

Ins

Nope. The preferred food of the masses was Soylent Green: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Talk about 'being green' and 'recycling'.

Back on topic, I suspect that as others have suggested, the biggest change is likely to be with display technology, though what form this will take is anyone's guess. Any 'all round' display is going to have problems with binocular vision, unless combined with shutter-type goggles, so a system based on a separate 'screen' for each eye - again goggle-based, might make more sense. On the other hand, they might just implant a microchip into your optic nerves...