Valve co-founder Gabe Newell isn’t exactly known for keeping his opinions about the gaming industry a secret. In keeping with that fine tradition, the Half-Life creator used his acceptance speech at this year’s Game Developer’s Choice Awards to shed some light on what he believes the future holds for gaming: real-world biometrics in games.
“We think biometrics will be really important,” the Valve boss told his GDC audience (via Develop). “We’ve seen a lot of work since the Wii shipped to explore how motion — and with this next generation of controllers — how vision systems are going to affect our games.”
Newell continued, “Given that we have all these proxies inside of our games, that measure player state, we think that actually being able to measure small things like pupil dilation, heart rate — those are the techniques that are going to give our games enormous impact in the future.”