GamerSize Science-Quest for the Perfect ExerGame

As 2008 draws to a close, it is time to pause, take a breath and reflect. A review of my year in ExerGaming will follow in a future post, but first I have been searching for a theme to try and draw my rich and varied experiences together. A collection of thoughts, words and ideas kept coming to the fore: mobile, immersive, miniature, wireless, networked, social, audioscape, tactile.

I had previously written a post “When Worlds Collide” and it suddenly jumped out at me when reading an article in Wired Magazine - “The New Reality”. Simply put, the virtual worlds of the web and video games have become mainstream in a variety of many interesting and exciting ways (e.g. iPhone, Wii and Guitar Hero). Virtual reality is no longer the holy grail. These tactile technology mashups between virtual and physical worlds have brought immersive experiences to the masses.