A Guitar Hero I Might Even Play

Have you seen the YouTube Guitar Hero clips where some kid is playing Dragon Force on expert mode, with no errors and wonder how good they would be if they actually practiced a real guitar instead of playing some wannabe video game.  According to Gizmodo.com, we might have an answer to that question.  The program is called Guitar Rising and apparently you can plug in any electric guitar and play.  I looks as if it works similar to guitar hero except your actually playing the guitar.  It starts out with learning the basics of the guitar and progresses to much harder levels.  Does this mean, there will be a guitarist in the future that says his/her influences were Vai, Satriani, Emmanuel, and Guitar Rising?