I´m sure most of you have dreamt of racing against the likes of Lewis Hamilton or Felipe Massa. For most sim racers, proving their skill against a real-life top driver will always be a dream.
A Dutch company could change that as iOpener Media is developing a technology to bring real life racing action via GPS to racing sims (see graphic below). The right technology and simulation provided, the GPS data could enable sim racers to race against some of the best drivers in the world.
The BBC has an indepth story about this interesting concept, currently iOpener Media is looking for developers to pick up their technology. Codemasters anyone?
Simon
June 11th, 2008 at 18:52
I can imagine alot more people taking up simracing if they were able to compete in real time. But the concept seems to require alot of testing, may I volunteer?
F1Racer
June 11th, 2008 at 19:01
Obviously doing it in real time means you miss the actual race :)
But the potential for this is staggering. You can download GPS data of already run races and load them up into your sim and be in the race.
Obviously not doing it in real time means you probably know the result before hand and its up to you to be there to change it.
Thing is if you take a car out and the car behind has its GPS data to carry on, now has to manoeuvre around the car instead which detracts it from its pre-determined GPS route.
Hopefully there are workarounds for that.
C
June 12th, 2008 at 05:23
It may be just me, but does anyone find it strange he is speaking about hardcore racers and the picture shows gamepad controls?