Yea we pretty much just have to "wait and see", I think we'll be surprised at how and when big changes happen.

If gaming comes to point like ".hack" I don't what I will do with myself.

Actually what has been holding back HMDs from going mainstream has been its price and that it was large and bulky. Also quality is a factor as well. HMDs also block out a lot of outside visual stimulus so you can focus on the experience. Imagine running through a forest and being faced with a giant ogre so large that you actually have to look up to see. There are HMDs out there now that work with Flight Simulators where you can look around at your 3D cockpit. If you do some research you will see that the technology has improved over the years. Give it another 10-12 years.

I guarantee you gloves will play a large role in gaming very soon. They also won't look like the Power Glove of old. I imagine they will be quite thin and lightweight and have wires running throughout your fingers. I can't imagine the technology is that far away. Imagine casting spells by waving your hand. Or throwing ninja stars by actually doing a throwing motion. This will be an important step in the immersion experience.

Why do I mention Sex to be important. Aside from people already spending billions of dollars every year, this is one area that is virtually untapped in the game market. Of course you can't beat the real experience but not everyone is married or dating/sleeping with supermodels. Games are more mature then they were 20 years ago. I don't feel that this direction is right or wrong, it's just the way it will go. AI will improve this experience as well. Couples may turn to this to spice up their sex life. They could be making out with each other while seeing a famous actor or model through a HMD. Just a thought. I also feel Nintendo will be the last to accept this if at all. At this point I think they will lose the mature audience for good. Sony will definately be the first to try this.

As for you last point I agree.

All companies, 1st & 3rd, will create the ultimate console. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Sega, and others will make a peace treaty. The console will include motion-sensing & realistic graphics. The developers will find out a way to produce the console in a cheap, yet durable way and it will cost $149.99 in the USA, and all games will be on that console. Games will be more varied & improved (Master Chief & Ratchet in the SSB game) and all companies would make equal profit. Features will include internet, cable, DVD, PC games conpatability, printer, MS word processing, and it's portable. Video Game Wars will end, and everyone will be happy.

You choose one of the many gamespreloaded on your 1000000gb console that you payed for at an affordable price, then on the holigraphic widesreen tv you purchased last week, you press the game you want to play (like minority report). Your body will then slowly digitalise turning in to floating pixels and flow into the tv screen. You appear on an object (like banjo kazooie where you appear on the symbol) and begin to play the game like in real life but instead your whole body is in the game. If you die in the game (like a FPS, RPG,Platformer or Car Racing) and have no lives left (you to the ground) your body dissolves and floats back out of the TV. And on the TV pops up GAME OVER!

all games will be on Holo Discs. 3TBs of space please =] hopefully in 10 years holo discs will be affordable.. 10 million for a disc drive is a bit much.. and 1 million for a single disc isnt that much better.