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by oliveshell 2878 days ago
My first thought was tabletop gaming: imagine real-time visuals for a D&D session à la the chessboard on the Millenium Falcon. Price point is too high for that at present though.
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There are some projects that do this with 3d TVs already... as an example on just 2d TVs, see https://www.patreon.com/dynamicdungeons

My reaction to most d&d players I know, is "cool, but no thanks". We are developers and play d&d to get AWAY from technology. We use it where it makes sense (I use a digital 2d map).. but the fun of d&d is in the mind, and having 3d monsters isn't helping the core game.

Honest question, do you play boardgames? I play tons of boardgames, and to me it always seems like the developers who rage on about “using apps to digitize boardgames” completely miss everything that I and my friends love about the games. I want to throw the dice myself, not press a button on my phone. When I play tricky economy games the fact that I need to do the math myself is a feature of the game not a bug. And when I play dungeons and dragons I want it to be all imagination. If I wanted to fight 3D fire breathing dragons in an immersive visual experiance I would be playing Skyrim not D&D.