Artificial Intelligence is all around us. It is used in our mobile phones to understand the content that we like to consume, and it is now being implemented into our cars (Tesla) and almost every other facet of our lives. Whether it improves human life is debatable, but its existence and prevalence can no longer be denied.
The gaming industry has also been seeing large changes in its landscape due to the incorporation of AI gaming technology by nearly every major game developer and company worldwide. Let’s take a look at a few of the biggest AI landscape changes that have been made in the gaming world.
Cloud and Blockchain-Based Gaming
Gone are the days when gamers would actually have to take a trip to their nearest game store to pick up a hard copy of the latest game release. While older generations might say that this was an essential part of the excitement that surrounded playing new games, the newer generation has a far easier way of accessing and paying for new games when they release.
Thanks to advancing AI technology, gaming in the modern era can be equated to movie streaming, as there are a couple of Netflix-like gaming sites that allow gamers to simply log on and play a game without downloading or installing it at all.
VR Gaming
VR gaming has been around for a while, but many experts would argue that its full potential has not yet been realized. VR is meant to offer the gamer a fully immersive experience, unlike any other form of gaming experienced before. Gamers playing in VR have, so far, only really been able to watch a story play out in front of them, from the point of view of a character, then really be able to play and immersive themselves in an online world.
That could all be about to change as artificial intelligence technology is going to be added to the VR gaming world. What these changes would entail is that VR controls will be optimized to fully place the user in the shoes of the characters. All movements, jumps, and maybe even thoughts will be used to create an experience unlike anything else ever seen in the gaming industry.
Data Mining in Gaming
One of the biggest reasons that AI tech has become so popular in the mobile and online world thus far is that it allows companies to fully understand their consumers’ wants and needs. Just like sportsbooks know that bettors want the latest NFL odds, AI can gather current data to enhance the gaming experience. The wants of the gamer will allow for dynamic situations to arise in the game to make an experience fully tailored to the person holding the controller.
Whether gamers want to be read like a book by AI technology is yet to be seen, but what we can say is that gaming will soon be fully and individually immersive.
