Zero Gravity Augmented Reality Games: Fun in an Orbiting Space Hotel

Augmented Reality home gaming in the living room is all the rage with systems like Wii Technologies and Kinect Gaming, but have you ever considered how hard it might be to play those games in zero gravity, or how much fun it might be to try? Consider the opportunities and applications available to a player in a space colony, whether in orbit on a space station, a space hotel, or stationed on the moon or Mars. Surely, you realize that this future is coming and that it will not be long.

For example, there are many space companies that are being developed by the private sector right now. Expanding space hotels are being set up, and will be ready and launched within the next 5 to 10 years. Within the next 30 years there will surely be a lunar colony and people on Mars. What will they do to entertain themselves? In many respects, they will live in a closed or encapsulated environment. Sports as we know them on Earth won’t be possible, at least not initially due to the size of soccer fields, baseball diamonds, and hockey rinks, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play in Augmented Reality. and Virtual.

Perhaps the player could be strapped down while playing a video game, and can let their feet lift off the ground and feel like they are flying, while watching the video screen. If there are flat screens around them that are part of the room, they can feel the sensation and speed of base jumping, without going anywhere. They could even experience horizontal BASE jumping by pushing off the side wall, while attached to a bungee cord-like system. The screen in front of them would be one on the ground that would get bigger and bigger very quickly as they got closer to the screen.

Are you starting to see the possibilities? Best of all, all this technology already exists, you just have to implement it. Human beings already have all these technologies and fun game situations, and they exist right now in the real world. Add some zero gravity and you’re all set for a good time. And that may well be the future of augmented reality gaming in a low-gravity or even zero-gravity environment. In fact, I hope you will please consider all this and think about it. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please feel free to email me.