Comments on: Ballracing Velocity MK1 – Video

By: ADC David

ADC David — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:00:44 +0000

They go to all that trouble and leave the animated steering wheel turned on. The little guy was funny though

By: idlejimbo

idlejimbo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:34:37 +0000

Meh. Looks a bit feeble. It needs rams, surely. They’ve gone to a lot of trouble to simulate, well, nothing at all really.
The Force Dynamics rig looks a lot more exciting. At least it smiulates bumps and juddering…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1iEtjs6S80&feature=related

By: ermax18

ermax18 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:22:47 +0000

It seems to me like the tilt method would emulate g-forces better. This thing can only create Gs by rapidly moving from one end to the other but it will run out of track to soon and no longer be able to emulate Gs. It doesn’t even look like it moves fast enough to emulate much force. A combination of a tilt system for Gs and this system for jolts would be cool. I can’t imagine the price tag on this thing. Hahaha.

By: F1Racer

F1Racer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:48:28 +0000

He’s spinning every few seconds because its probably disorienting having it shake around like that. I dunno if Im wow’ed by it.
WhatIm wondering is despite his apparent size, was he stood up in that cockpit ?:)

By: hypertek

hypertek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:09:37 +0000

thats cool.. id think it could be better.. in front of a projection screen *cheaper then 3 monitors* because with the monitors, it seems like they are looking up at them, instead of looking out front at a horizon