Week 11 – Framing

1) Xbox recently unveiled a new video game technology called Kinect in which no controller is necessary. Does this have any profound effects on the development of virtual reality and what other technological contributions might this signal for the larger spectrum of technological advances apart from the gaming world?

2) Are there any examples of well-known open-source gaming software that have been able to rival the multi-million dollar production of popular games?

3) Is it a fair assessment to say that the types of games marketed through the wii gaming system signal a change in video game type (to educational and fitness) and how can we look at this change from a social sciences or humanities perspective?