Think the Kara footage from Quantic Dreams’ new engine was impressive? Then hold on to your virtual hats folks, studio founder David Cage reckons it’s going to get even better. Indeed, he believes that we won’t be able to tell the difference between games and reality within ten years.

Speaking during GDC 2012 in San Francisco recently, the Quantic Dreams boss outlined his vision of a spectacular digital future. Yet despite what he sees as inevitable advances, it’s the application of that tech that he finds most interesting.

“Technology is the pen to write the book, but it doesn’t write the book for you. The most important thing to me is the content, what do you do with this technology? What do you use it for and what do you have to tell?”

He continued, “I think the future, the most interesting feature in the next-gen platforms will be meaningful content. Yeah, technology is great and it’s going to get better and better until you reach the stage where you won’t be able to tell the difference between reality and games. We are what, 10 years from that now? Ok.”

“But what is interesting is what are you going to use this technology for? What do you have to say? And for me meaningful content is the most important thing.”

So there you have it. Cage’s vision of the future involves games with both emotional maturity and spectacular visuals. He’s at the very forefront of the latter, but will he be able to deliver on the former? One thing’s for sure, he’s not going to give up trying.