video game furniture Guide

Equipping your room, or dorm with the right video game furniture, is a question of your goals, what do you want to get out of your video game system. All game experience is based on a process. When playing a game, the game code talks with the hardware, and then the hardware interprets what the game is saying to you. You are playing a game, and you want the hardware to talk to you in your language. The language that every video gamer expects of its hardware is that of good graphics, sound, and playability.

To get the video game to speak your language you have to have the right translators, which are keywords like comfort, immersion, and enjoyment.These 3 keywords make up the language of a good video game furniture.

Now the game really speaks your language, it speaks it through the video game furniture. Today there is not much furniture available that has this capability. Most focus on giving you just one element like comfort, and leaving immersion and enjoyment to the game.

Video game consoles are still only communicating to us in a rather limited way. They are still only using 2-3 of the senses we use to experience the world.Graphics, sound, and controller vibration, are still the main effects , and they have a limited tactile vocabulary. Other interfaces are beginning to emerge like the Eye Toy, and voice recognition.

We interact with video game consoles, mostly using a video game controller that is beginning to give a greater feedback from the video game. The games do this by using force feedback, by vibrating. Force feedback is a feature that originated in the video games arcades, and is used to give a real world simulation of what happens in the game world.

One of the features of force feedback video game controllers is that they are used to give active feedback from what is happening in the game. For a long time video game consoles have used corded game controllers to play. Today this is changing as new kind of controllers have seen the light of day. They are based on a technology called wirelessUSB. An example of a force feedback wireless controller is the Logitech cordless controller.

An example of using an force feedback controller when playing is when taking a hard turn in Grand Turismo, or Project Gotham Racing, the controller would vibrate. This is done to give the simulation of what is happening in the game more real.
Another would be when playing Resident Evil, and a monster would jump through a window, right in front of you, leading to your controller vibrating.

In general computer language, this is called haptics, and refers to using touch to interact with computers. To learn more about haptics, and how it works, you can read more about it in Wikipedia

The way most games have made up for this is by having more than a million colors on the screen, and are now beginning to offer High Definition picture quality, and they also have high quality sound. To bridge the gap between what you see in the game, and what you sense, video game furniture can bridge that difference. To bridge the difference you can use keywords like Comfort, Immersion, and Enjoyment to fill in that gap.

Using the keywords a question can be formulated, that will help you to find the video game furniture of choice. What video game furniture combines comfort and immerision together with great enjoyment ?

Searching for the ultimate video game furniture

Comfort

A video game furniture, you can sit or lounge in, and it has to be comfortable. It might be something hip, colorful, and comfortable. A chair that might be used for a variety of things, like as a headrest, or to listen to mp3 or watch a DVD, or just to take a nap in. Then when you are not using it, it could be folded it and stored somewhere.

A portable video game furniture that is compact, not too heavy, so that it can be transported between rooms, when playing with friends. A handle would be nice, so you could hold it.

Immersion
Full sound immersion adds a new layer to gaming through the video game furniture. Bullets fly around, when playing a game like Vice City, or sounds of aliens running all around when playing a game like Halo. The sound rumbles the furniture when playing the game, and a new stage in gaming has been reached. A new layer has been added to the level of playing games.

Enjoyment
Enjoyment is mostly up to the game, but a video game furniture, can give an additional sense to playing the game. Instead of just using a video game controller to play, you get a better experience since the video game furniture can become part of the game.

Finding the solution
There are many possible combinations, and that is why the video game furniture of choice is a video game lounger that combines the three keywords into one solution.

It is called PM550 and is designed by a company called Pyramat. The PM550 is a video game lounger. It is compact, can be folded when not in use, and sports a carrying handle. It has 3 speaker audio system, for immersive game playing and fits with the selected three keywords. Comfort, immersion, and enjoyment.