Well the obvious answer to this one would probably be ‘even more high-def’. Okay, admittedly, at some point an image can reach such a depth that it is no longer distinguishable from reality. Some experts in Japan are working on the successor of HDTV, named UHDTV (Ultra High Definition TV). But don’t expect that to be near any household soon.
But that’s not my point. Next thing up is making it even more realistic, making you even more a part of the game or movie as you already are. And just how do you do that?
The Wii is getting closer by tracking movements in three dimensions of the controller, and by doing so rendering the image according to the movement you made. Pretty cool. But… we’re still looking at a simulated 3D image.
Okay. In the end, a screen is a screen, and everything is bound to its surface. But there are tricks or you can fool your brain into thinking that what you see is an actual window, with full three dimensions. Meaning that when you move your head, everything else moves with you, like it would in the real world.
Johnny Chung Lee, from the Carnegie Mellon University, became aware that this effect needs to be achieved for truly stunning 3D experiences. Make your screen a window into another world. A real window.
And so he did.
Watch this.
Now we wait for the next console generation.
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