You may be familiar with augmented reality. It's the technology used to digitally paint those yellow first down markers on the field during a NFL telecast. It's a pretty interesting technology. The fact that you can digitally superimpose anything into a real world setting immediately makes me think of all the videogame application possibilities. Imagine using physical objects to change the trajectory of your Lemmings, throwing balls at a ghost, or walking through a creepy dungeon. Or, my favorite, what if you could put goggles on that would make you feel as if you were in a haunted house? It would project ghost and monsters, kind of like that shark in Back to the Future II only with goggles and better graphics.
Right now developers are designing for cell phones, which is particularly exciting to me because the possible integration of GPS technology. Imagine going to a specific place and holding your camera phone up and seeing something amazing, like a ghost or a UFO. This is all probably really hard to understand from my descriptions, and probably far down the pipeline, but it still beats the pants off of Natal, check out this cool NVIDIA tegra developer demo and the Roku's Reward demo afterward.


The future is going to be awesome.