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GPL Immersion Complete!

ymenar

GPL Immersion Complete!

by ymenar » Sun, 23 May 1999 04:00:00


Of course! I take examples from the NROS and even GPL online.  When I see
ahead a pileup and you know that you have no chance of passing it alive,
normally Im so physically and mentally concentrated into my racing that it
will hurt myself.  You will flex the muscles, sometimes close your eyes.
The brain will associate your actions that way, since psychologically your
actually racing, the only difference are the physical forces you endorse in
a racecar.  The brain will probably flow adrenaline into your ***, or
release some enzymes so that you sweat, heart beat goes faster, dry throat
etc..  I mean you are racing for real, just in a virtual environment!.  So
all the emotions are done the same way.

It just hurts less :)

The mental concentration will make you subliminally try to look above your
virtual arms to look at what gear your in, make your head pan left and right
depending on the cornering, etc..

I know that my cat Chewbacca (real name ;-D  ) never sleeps near my PC
anymore when I race, because of those actions we subliminally do.  The
sensation of loosing, frustration, joy, etc..  it all applies in the same
way you know :)

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Philip For

GPL Immersion Complete!

by Philip For » Mon, 24 May 1999 04:00:00

LOL good onya Jack, I did something once just as stupid, I was going round a
corner and my hand on the cars steering wheeel were blocking the view to my
gauges, so what did  I do...... you guessed it I lifted my hand on the wheel
I was using and wondered why the hand in the game didn't move :)) did I feel
silly, GPL what a simulation.

Regards Phil.


Snip

> No wait! Did you catch that? I turned...I turned my head to the right,
away
> from the monitor, expecting to see a Lotus or Brabham sitting over there!
> Couldn't quite make out a number on the pile of books sitting on my
> desk! LOL!

> I thought to myself...Wow! They've finally done...virtual reality. We can
no
> longer distinguish what's real from what's imagined! GPL immersion's
> complete! Speaks volumes about the quality of this sim!

> Jack Rambo

> www.RaceLive.com/GPaL

Ian Parke

GPL Immersion Complete!

by Ian Parke » Mon, 24 May 1999 04:00:00

I was on a hotlap at Spa last night and encountered a stricken Honda exiting
Stavelot, and pulled my left arm in to stop hitting it as I went past :)

--
Ian Parker

ICQ   21772592


> Yep, Phil. Haven't done that with the instruments, but I have tried to
look
> around the virtual arms to see the gear lever.

> And here's another good one that I bet everybody's attempted:

> Ever instinctively craned your head to the left or right to get an
expanded
> field of view in a mirror?

> Jack

> www.RaceLive.com/GPaL

Graeme Nas

GPL Immersion Complete!

by Graeme Nas » Tue, 25 May 1999 04:00:00

I have been known to duck when I'm about to land on my sim-head :-)

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Cheers!
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David Kar

GPL Immersion Complete!

by David Kar » Wed, 26 May 1999 04:00:00

And then there was me, sitting at an intersection yesterday, looking across
at a stand of old oak trees, and marveling, "what excellent graphics!"

--david


> >I was on a hotlap at Spa last night and encountered a stricken Honda
exiting
> >Stavelot, and pulled my left arm in to stop hitting it as I went past :)

> I have been known to duck when I'm about to land on my sim-head :-)

> --
> Cheers!
> Graeme Nash


> http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk
> ICQ# 11257824

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