With estimations of 90% of people worldwide having mobile phones, they completely outnumber people who frequently use computers significantly. As the quality of mobile gaming is increasing as well, more people are being drawn away from their computers and consoles and towards their own phones for gaming. As the prestige and popularity of mobile gaming continues to rise could it potentially outshine computers?
With major companies such as Apple entering the world of AR/VR will this make standard gaming obsolete? With new breakthroughs occurring in VR, AR and MR every day, it is only a matter of time before it is financially accessible. Will we get to the point where we favour virtual realities over the reality we live in?
Every day, AI is advancing and improving video games in exciting ways. AI allows for games to continue to be more immersive and dynamic. Its ability to learn and adapt allows each individual to have a unique meaningful gaming experience. When this technology comes to mobile games, the accessibility of our phones will allow us to be attached to games constantly being engineered for our enjoyment.
With advances in mobile gaming, can we replace games used for our enjoyment with games that serve an educational purpose? Would we be able to create games that the criterion for success teaches us important lessons about topics that are taught in school, such as physics and history for an example? In the future would we be able to assign grades based on our student's performances in these games?