{"id":14700,"date":"2016-10-27T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2016-10-27T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:47:50","slug":"the-future-of-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-future-of-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102716_0445_TheFutureOf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a wider look at the challenges facing the gambling industry, The Economist had tidbits about how casinos were planning for the future:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Young people don&#8217;t gamble as much. But they do like video games. And so casinos are planning to have &#8220;skill-based&#8221; games for players to bet on.<\/li>\n<li>Experiments include &#8220;gravity-free&#8221; rooms where players can climb up walls, and LED screens that change the interior scenery.<\/li>\n<li>Mixed virtual reality shooter games may allow friends to band together to fight monsters \u2013 and bet on the number that they&#8217;d be able to kill, or their overall accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>Casinos might also consider offering bets on televised e-sports.<\/li>\n<li>And then there are less ambitious initiatives like offering Game of Thrones slots.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear if any of this will be able to save casinos in a world where slot machines look like dated technology and fantasy sport betting is just a few taps of a smartphone away.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the future of casino towns like Las Vegas is to forget their gambling origins, become host towns to conventions, and maybe offer the young a night of debauchery through a happening night-club scene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21708278-casino-industry-may-be-too-risk-averse-lure-younger-customers-putting-it-all-grey\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wider look at the challenges facing the gambling industry, The Economist had tidbits about how casinos were planning for the future: Young people don&#8217;t gamble as much. But they do like video games. And so casinos are planning to have &#8220;skill-based&#8221; games for players to bet on. Experiments include &#8220;gravity-free&#8221; rooms where players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102716_0445_TheFutureOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}