The Best Online Casinos Are Preparing For The Future
If you want to survive in entertainment, you need to base your technology on gimmicks. That’s just how it is! Every few years, you need to create new and exciting gimmicks that can attract audiences to you and can prove that your craft can still offer something new. In the realm of movies we got movies with sound, color, progressively larger screens, multiple iterations of 3D, various sound systems, IMAX… Videogames have tried to pull us in with handheld systems, 3D graphics, motion controls, mobile gaming, VR… Pretty much every single sphere of entertainment, from music to comics, has had its fair share of technological gimmicks. Hell, even books have had it, if we count stuff like audiobooks and ebooks! And sure, some of those gimmicks are purely just supposed to be The Next Big Thing™ and add very little to the overall experience (let me tell you, pretty much any movie that has been converted to 3D rather than shot in 3D is not worth seeing in 3D), but others have the capacity to truly change their respective industry.
The same goes for online casinos. Throughout the years, we’ve seen numerous gimmicks pop up in our online entertainment, most prominently mobile casino and live casino. I mean, sure, I guess you can refer to stuff like bonus offers and additional games as “gimmicks”, but they’re not really the type of technological advancements that I’d really like to focus on at the moment. And sure, we can go on and on about whether live casino has a future considering its diminishing returns as of late, or whether mobile casino ultimately lived up to the hype, but that’s boring! Why look into the past when we can instead gaze into the future? Let’s stop for a second, examine the currently existing technology and try to predict what sites like the ones listed on www.bestonlinecasinos.org.uk have in store for the future! And keep in mind, while I’m pretty sure that the things I’m predicting will, in fact, be implemented in the future (there’s just too much evidence pointing towards it), I can’t say exactly when – could be in 5 years, or in 10, or in 15. Who knows! I don’t! Let’s get down to it!
First things first – VR. Microgaming’s VR roulette won at least one major award, which makes it very lucrative as the very next online casino gimmick. Most VR headsets are expensive as hell, but in fairness, they’re of a very high quality and were designed for much more sophisticated functions. For something as simple as playing roulette in virtual reality, I don’t think you’d need more than the Samsung Gear VR or the Google Cardboard, which will set you back about £60 or nothing, respectively. With a bit of tinkering, we could be seeing VR come into play by 2020. Another thing that’s very gradually coming in are skill-based slots, which have already been legalized in four US states. At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before they’re legal in the UK, and trust me, when that happens, they’re going to start popping up in our online casinos within the year. Another thing that I can absolutely see happening is 4K streaming for live casino. That one’s probably further off than my other predictions (probably about 10 years away), but with 2016 being the year of 4K, and 4K-capable monitors gradually coming into the market, within 10 years 4K streaming should really be the norm for everything, including online casinos. But no matter how much we speculate, the only way to know for sure what the future holds is to experience it ourselves! Who knows, maybe in 5-10 years I’ll link this article again and will say “Ha, told ya!”