The Future of Sports

Introduction:

• The future of sports is a topic that keeps many sports fans interested. Everyone wonders what sports will be like five, even ten years from now and in this web quest you will learn about few ideas that are circulating. From orbital sports stadiums to virtual sports, the future of sports has endless opportunities.

Virtual Sports

• Virtual sport games are appealing because they put the fans in charge of the action. The players of these games get to choose their own teams and build their own strategies. The also get to run their favorite plays and watch their efforts pay off as they advance through the tournaments and leagues they are involved in.

Virtual Sports (cont.)

• The use of virtual games deepen the fans participation in both reality and virtual reality. The virtual world and the real world are now beginning to combine, as software companies capture actual sporting events, locations and moments in realistic virtual worlds.

Virtual Sports (cont.)

• As gaming platforms become more influential, coaches have begun to consider applying gaming technology to develop better plays and coaching strategies by running them in virtual worlds first. Maybe coaches will even start looking online for some expert advice from virtual gamers.

Orbital Sports

• The orbital sports stadiums requirements will be determined primarily by customers' preferences. The size needed for orbital sports stadium will be set by the sports events that will be held there. It is too early to know what will become the "standard" size for orbital sports stadium in the future.

The Pros of the Future of Sports

• The ability to travel to space. • The ability to create all star sports

teams on the internet. • Virtual sports games can help people

that are not good at regular sports to be good at virtual sports.

The Cons of the Future of Sports

• The Orbital Sports Stadium will be very expensive to build and will cost a lot of money for people to travel and stay in space.

• Virtual sports games will cause children to stay inside the house for longer periods of time.

Where was this technology years ago?

• Years ago the talk of an orbital sports stadium seemed absurd, but now it can become reality.

• Virtual sports years ago were just coming out. This was just the beginning of interactive sports and games with your television, that can cause us to feel like we were actually playing the games.

How is this technology now?

• The existence of the orbital sports stadium is only in the talks right now and is not near to being built. There is no such thing as an orbital sports stadium, but hopefully there will be one in the near future.

• Virtual sports are very popular right now. Nintendo came out with a new game system called Wii. This system is completely virtual and wireless. This causes people to be able to fully interact with what they are playing such as a sport.

How long will this technology take to be

available? • The orbital sports stadium is expected to

be available for use around 2030.

• Virtual sports games are available now, but keep advancing every year. New game systems will keep coming out and will keep progressing to make you feel like your in the games.

How will this new technology affect society?

• The invention of the orbital sports stadium will cause people to want to travel to space. These sports stadiums would also have a hotel attached to them so that people can vacation in space.

• Virtual sports games can help children with their hand-eye coordination, give children something to be good at if they are not good at outdoor sports, but also cause them to stay indoors for longer periods of time.

Virtual Sports

Orbital Sports Stadiums

Resources:

• http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/orbital_sports_stadium.shtml

• http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/sports/feb7/Future_of_sports.html

• http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/338

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

By: Elizabeth Donohoe

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