Do We Need To Retire The Term "Video Game" and Pick Something New?

When I was young, we had video games. I mean, they were literally games we played by watching on a video screen. Today, games have gotten much more immersive, VR-enabled games are growing and there are more experiments on human-computer interfaces and neural implants.

The advances are leading at least one gaming tech founder to wonder in a tweet whether the term "video game" might already be a dated way of describing the sorts of immersive experiences that are under development.

It's one of those seemingly simple suggestions with world-shifting implications behind it. Will the video games of today become the alternate realities of tomorrow? On some level, perhaps the answer is already yes.