I came across the game Animal Crossing : City Folk through my housemates heavy gaming obsession, and thought it had some relevance to the Digital Cultures Brief. The game is essentially a virtual life simulation, much in the way that The Sims is, and even Second Life. Players are able to meet their friends online and converse with them as game offers the use of Wii-speak. The thing that interests me about all of this is the fact that the game is aimed at a pretty young target audience, meaning a lot of kids today are growing up with all of these really advanced interactive features, so in the future they'll be expecting everything else to have the same level of interactivity. This means as designers we need to be aware of our future audiences expectations, as a lot of the things that are currently standard won't cut it with the younger generation when they grow up.
Up next, Nabaztag!!
One of the more positive things I've come across while researching RFID tags is Nabaztag, which is a plastic rabbit with an RFID tag in its nose and Wi-Fi in its ears. This little contraption sits next to your computer and can speak out information from the web for you, from news reports to weather. Yup, great. And as I read on one website ' Your kids will surely appreciate it as the rabbit can read out RFID tagged children books which mean it could take over the role of child's grandmother with ease.' So off to the retirement home with you grandma, nabaztag's made you obsolete.
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