CONTRARY to what a lot of detractors may think about the video games industry, a lot of its applications, tech and games have been known to accomplish more than merely entertaining millions of players.
At one point, for example, the US Air Force was using nearly 2,000 PlayStation 3 consoles to create a supercomputer in its research laboratory, since their graphical capabilities were better at rendering images than anything on offer at the time. The History Channel used Rome: Total War to show representations of the landscapes, tactics and skirmishes of great battles in its Decisive Battles show. And Kinect, Microsoft’s often maligned hands-free motion control system, has been used to shield doctors from contagious diseases during examinations.