This lunch I saw a talk about “Augmented Reality” which is like virtual reality, except that you use a combination of the real world and VR type equipment to add new elements to the real world. Thus, for instance, users wear transparent displays so that they see extra objects in their environment. At the end of the talk, the discussion turned to using such a system for gaming. Think of playing Doom with your own home and neighborhood as the actual physical setting. Right now, like all things VR, however, the equipment is just too damn expensive.
But it got me thinking about a gaming system along these lines, but maybe not as expensive. Imagine a handheld LCD screen with a camera attached. You hold the system in front of you and it shows you a display. Now this display is a combination of the real physical world around you and augmented reality elements. Now imagine a first person shooting game, for example. You and your friends running around shooting each other through these hand held screens. Sound like fun?
O brave new quantum world!