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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4748349" data-attributes="member: 19083">Technology for "scroll-style" computer/phones is coming.Ever seen the Val Kilmer "Mars" film? like that, for real. Be a few years thoughSo imagine 10+ years from now, you carry a tube, every one carries a tube, not a phone who's keys are too damn small to be any good (grr pet peeve of mine)...you unroll it for laptop with a keyboard and screen, nice BIG keys, not like phones now.<a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/d-roll-laptop-c.php" target="_blank">D-roll laptop concept rolls up into a scroll, wears like a purse | DVICE</a><img src="http://dvice.com/assets_c/2009/04/D-roll-laptop-concept-by-Hao-Hua-thumb-550x483-15861.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />It has USB...plug it into bigger video screens if wish.Also with the advent of hyper-capacitors (think, super batteries), you have very long lived power for your portable items (including laser weapons when they get the capacity high enough, that'll please the Star Wars fans <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor" target="_blank">Electric double-layer capacitor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor" target="_blank">EEStor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Also, OLED tchnology will allow super low power, super large screens, soft, flexible, rubber screens...instead of a battle mat, think VIDEO mat.Dead serious.In the FAR future, 50+ years, table top maybe defunct, it may be a sweet luxury like competition chess...we will go down the MMO route though, for D&D play. let's face it, it sucks trying to get a gaming group together. I've ran groups online for years, because it's so hard getting to play around a real table.People want MMO's because TV etc is moslty boring, it's much more fun to DO things than just watch.However, it takes more chuzpah to pro-actively participate and espcially, to create and organize.The DDI game table idea, eventually that kind of thing will morph into full 3D. The D&D game 20+ years from now:5 pals, in different countries, but nto too far seperated by time zones (trust me, time zone differences Do wreck games).Each carries a "tube Laptop/phone". Doesn't matter where they are, break at work, out picknicking, at home, etc, they connect, checking via phone to see all is ok.DM has a huge array of 3D sets items, and tools so he can show the party any scenario, ad not jsut dungeons: sandy wastes, frozen glaciers etc.customizable UIs for each player. linked database of characters, DM can check PCs sheets on the fly. Similar ot what cna be done now, but better.the Dm and/or players subsrcibe to DDI, downloading latest books as they are made, AND the art content tp play the game.100+ years from now, truly immersive, DM's will be the "film directors" of their age. Most film and TV will have died. Who wants to watch TV when he cna BE in Icewind dale, not just as a isometric view, but in full, glorious, photoreal graphics.Real time 3D rendering, photoreal, is coming already...Photorealism isn't actually my thing, in 3D, this was just done as a test render when I was building an "Accelerator", took an hour or so. New render engines are coming out soon that give real time renders of this quality...photorelaism, video, not stills. (I did this with maxwell renderer, for those who're intereted, rather expensive, but I bought it in the alpha phase for 1/3rd the price, muhaha!)<img src="http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/rhino/2008/accelerator29.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Told folk this kind of stuff would come about 20 odd years ago, mayeb now they'll believe it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />"*makes circle with thumb and index finger, holds it to his eye*Be seeing you! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

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