A reader looks towards the future of gaming and of Christmas, where the pandemic may have encouraged habits that will stay for a long time.
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.’
The future is… a tricky one. A hard thing to define. Even the great Walt Disney himself was said to have struggled when it came to designing Tomorrowland in the original Disneyland (and he was Walt Disney!). This is because the future, or rather our perception of the future: what it is, what it is going to be, is always shifting, and changing.
So, theoretically, this is the most challenging of the three Christmas ‘spirit’ articles to write (you can read part 1 here and part 2 here), even though there are so many technologies and gaming innovations which could lead us forward into the gaming nirvana.
Firstly, there are existing technologies which are really coming into their…
