But let’s hope the future involves less noise and more pixels, yes?
The original Doom is a landmark in the history of PC gaming. Hardly news, of course, but its enduring popularity over the past three decades means that it’s also the piece of software that one must use when experimenting with coding or electronics projects. When I saw it being played on a volumetric display, though, it didn’t generate any feelings of nostalgia—I saw the future of PC gaming.
If you’re wondering just what a volumetric display is, it’s a device that consists of a strip or array of LEDs that get rapidly rotated. The image created by the lights changing in a streamed pattern then fills a volume in front of you. In other words, it’s like a holographic display (think Star Wars).
A YouTuber going by the name Ancient has been seemingly obsessed with getting Doom to run on all kinds of little gadgets and displays, but their recent adventures with a volumetric display have been genuinely intriguing.
