We often focus on new game releases and software updates, but looking at how hardware in gaming is developing is just as exciting. After all, without good hardware, we can’t even run our often demanding video games. A lot is happening in the hardware world today. Among other things, there’s a lot of experimentation with incorporating AI and encryption into hardware, including controllers. Here’s your update on what the future of AI controllers could hold.
How AI can improve hardware
There are two main ways that AI can improve (and already is improving) hardware.
First, security. Security on a hardware level is important and can help prevent remote attacks, making devices much less vulnerable. Advanced encryption, like that used at a crypto casino, will also be an important part of security on a hardware level. If the encryption is already baked into the hardware, it will work much faster while providing users with a secure experience that can’t be accomplished through secure software alone.
The second thing that AI does to improve gaming hardware is making the experience of gaming more enjoyable in various ways – decreasing delays and lag, personalizing the experience, and in other ways using collected data to adapt the experience in important ways, to name just a few ways.
What the future of game controllers might look like
As mentioned, lots of things are happening in the world of hardware right now, especially in relation to implementing AI to create more dynamic responses based on real-time analysis. Here are a few different features we might see in game controllers in the future.
Haptic feedback through the controller
Haptic feedback – communication through vibrations, temperature, and the like – could be key in tomorrow’s game controllers. By adding smart haptic feedback features, a game can be made much more immersive, and the subtle signals will soon start to feel intuitive. While this idea is not at all new, it’s been relatively limited so far. Now that advanced AI is here, the feedback can be made much more natural, subtle, and responsive than ever before.
Adapting settings to match the player profile
Data analysis, coupled with advanced hardware features, would allow players to enjoy a customized experience that gets better and better the more you play. These would be micro-adjustments to sensitivity, trigger resistance, and more, depending on both the player profiles’ habits and performance, but maybe even through biometric sensors that can detect the mood of the players and then adapt in real-time.
Of course, a lot of this would be software. But it would also require changes in hardware to collect as much relevant data as possible, and maybe even possibilities of changing the feel of clicking a button through adaptive and customizable hardware design.
New controllers with 6G sensing
With the upcoming release of 6G, a network that can sense, a whole world of new possibilities will open up. In fact, gaming controls as we know them might become obsolete. Gestures, eye tracking, and more could instead be used to control the movements in a game, making it possible to play just by focusing on a screen instead of holding a second device.
AI controllers for personal coaching
On top of personalizing your experience in real time, AI controllers featuring encryption could also help train you to become better at gaming by combining a rich source of information with sharp analysis and recommendations. It might bring to your attention tendencies that you yourself aren’t aware of, but that nonetheless impact your gaming performance negatively. As a coach, it would then give you useful tips that help you break unconscious patterns and perform at your very best.
Concluding Thoughts
Gaming has always been the perfect playground for new technologies, providing users with the newest solutions while giving the new tech time to mature. Now, AI in hardware, such as came controllers, is the perfect space to experiment, and we’re bound to see many interesting implementations of such technology.
It’s not yet certain how all of today’s and the near future’s technology will evolve to provide better ways of enjoying games, but if you want to see the future, then the world of gaming is actually just the place to be!
