Ever since I was a child, I've dreamed of virtual video games. Playing without playing. Controlling my avatar without a controller. I wished it would come true, year after year and finally, it has arrived. Xbox Kinect allows you to connect with your avatar, explore different levels of game play as "one". But is that what we need in society, as a whole?
Let's be honest, everyone loves the idea of interactive video games. But do we really love the idea that it could be what destroys sports as we know them? Think about it this way, playing sports and playing them well is every teenagers dream. So why not allow them to set the difficulty level and replay the same levels until they get better with no consequence? Because it will cause the world to have a disconnect with verbs.
Verb: It's what you do. I remember hearing that statement back in the 6th grade and since then, that's what I know the definition to be. Are today's sport video games killing this idea of verbs? The thought of motion and action. With all of the high tech gadgets in this century, can we survive without them? My idea of "Diskinect" is...if you create a project named 'Kinect' that does, indeed, connect with the user, but also disconnects their actions outside of the virtual world, the world of sports we know of today will be eliminated, indubitably.
People, today, are forced to believe that living in a state where you can use your body to maneuver gadgets is fine. And not even your body with physical interactions, just the motion of the figure. Soon enough, the transferring of telepathic messages will be the way we control our lives. Without the lift of a finger. Thus, taking away our youth. How's that for irony? :]
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