Movement And Emotion

Jonah Lehrer praises the Wii:

For decades, video game designers have been obsessed with visualrealism, as if the eyeball was the key to our emotional brain. Butaccurate graphics have diminishing returns. At a certain point, wedon't need more pixels - we need more physicality. For the first time,video games are taking advantage of their specific medium, exploitingthe features that other entertainments (such as movies and novels) aremissing. No other form of culture, after all, depends on the...