Games are infiltrating our lives in more and more ways. From Foursquare and Gowalla, to Starbucks points. There are more and more ways to play games in our lives with everything we do.
There’s a game designer and professor at Carnegie Mellon named Jesse Schell who believes that everything in life will soon become a game. He recently did an interview with CNN in which he discussed how and in what ways our lives are turning into games.
Some of the highlights are:
- toothbrushes will be hooked-up with Wi-Fi Internet connections within five years.
- New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body.
- I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the “Gamepocalypse”
- World of Warcraft will start to have a camera on your face, and then they’ll map your facial expression to your avatar.
- They already have a bathroom scale that uses Wi-Fi and connects to the Internet, so that every time you weigh yourself, it uploads it to a database so you can track your weight over time.
You can read the whole interview at CNN, and I recommend you do. You know, I’m thinking of buying one of those scales. I’m sure it would embarass me into losing the 15-20lbs I need to.
You can also watch a talk he did at the DICE conference here:
So basically the guys a gamer, and aren’t we all. Other than being a gamer, he’s one of those people who thinks outside the box on a lot of things.
If you’re interested in more of his thoughts, you can read his blog here.
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