A large-scale tournament will be held in Kazan from February 21 to March 3, 2024
The future has already arrived: everything you need to know about the upcoming festival "Games of the Future"
The festival "Games of the Future" starts in Kazan on February 21. The name speaks for itself: This is a futuristic sports tournament based on the intersection of classical and digital sports — in other words, on the territory of "physical & digital".
"More than 260 experienced teams and more than 2,000 athletes from different countries will take part in each of the 21 disciplines. The competitions will be divided into 5 categories or "challenges": sports, tactics, strategy, technology and speed" — this is how the organizer describes the upcoming event.
About digital
Imagine that you are standing in virtual reality glasses, and a dragon is rushing right in front of you, and your goal is to get into the castle. And to get there, you need to run and defend yourself from the fire with a shield. You see everything that happens in glasses, and you make movements in the real world. This is a digital — integrated space in which you are simultaneously in two realities.
Digital sports
It will not be possible to name a specific date of the invention of digital sports. It has "evolved" over time as new technologies have emerged. For example, in the Mixar Blog article mentions 4 stages:
- The emergence of the Internet and mobile devices, where the digital and physical worlds were separated;
- The emergence of cloud services and the ability to control objects via the Internet;
- The creation of virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence, where physical and digital experiences began to merge with each other
- The emergence of a digital space where physical and digital experiences have become a single whole
In this interweaving of realities, you can set records in almost any sport. Football, racing, basketball, hockey, skateboarding — tournaments have already been held in these areas in Kazan, which were watched by millions of viewers online.
And what will happen this year?
Photo: Games of the future
From February 21 to March 3, 2024, a large-scale tournament will be held in Kazan, which the audience will see as an innovative show. "More than 260 experienced teams and more than 2,000 athletes from different countries will take part in each of the 21 disciplines. The competitions will be divided into 5 categories or "challenges": sports, tactics, strategy, technology and speed" — this is how the organizer describes the upcoming event.
What to see in Kazan between competitions?
We will publish a selection of iconic places, historical monuments and unusual locations very soon! In the meantime, we remind you that during the festival you can stay at the 3A Hotel — a place where we have already taken care of your comfort.
You can book a room on on the websiteor by phone: 8 800 302 33 52