{"id":816,"date":"2014-05-16T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T04:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/?p=816"},"modified":"2014-05-16T21:16:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T04:16:54","slug":"where-are-all-the-magical-gaming-inputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/where-are-all-the-magical-gaming-inputs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are all the magical gaming inputs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NES-Power-Glove.jpg\" alt=\"NES-Power-Glove\" width=\"800\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NES-Power-Glove.jpg 800w, https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NES-Power-Glove-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2011 new and exciting gaming inputs promised a total shift in how we interacted with games. Not only games, but technology. This was the new unexplored frontier that was going to revolutionize everything and then&#8230; nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>The post-kinect world didn&#8217;t really look any different. Motion controllers, or gaming wands amounted to nothing more than a fad. It was like we dusted off the power glove and NES light gun and called them new. <\/p>\n<p>Inputs aren&#8217;t revolutionizing gaming or interfaces. Are new consumption interfaces going to be the same thing? Is the Occulus doomed to niche lab experiments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011 new and exciting gaming inputs promised a total shift in how we interacted with games. Not only games, but technology. This was the new unexplored frontier that was going to revolutionize everything and then&#8230; nothing happened. The post-kinect world didn&#8217;t really look any different. Motion controllers, or gaming wands amounted to nothing more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"psp_head":"<title>Where are all the magical gaming inputs? \u2013 Today Was Awesome<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2011 new and exciting gaming inputs promised a total shift in how we interacted with games. Not only games, but technology. This was the new unexplored frontier that was going to revolutionize everything and then.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/where-are-all-the-magical-gaming-inputs\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}