http://carbon.virtualspectator.com/wrvs/introduction.htm
I ordered mine today $10 for Rally Catalunya, can't wait for Friday to check
it out!
Man, what an amazing piece of work. I love WRC, and this makes a visual
tool to see where people win or lose the rallys.
"Jay J" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> http://carbon.virtualspectator.com/wrvs/introduction.htm
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> I ordered mine today $10 for Rally Catalunya, can't wait for Friday tocheck
> it out!
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Please be sure to report back on your experience.
I used VS for the last America's Cup sail racing challenge
and found it to be a wonderfully innovative way to follow
a series of races on the opposite side of the world from me.
I will be very interested in how it works for auto sports.
"440825" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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There is a free demo with some fictious drivers. It looks very good.
I'm impressed. When they showed the Olympics, they tried putting two
bobsleds onscreen at once. That is something WRC needs to get...Us
Americans like to know who's ahead...
dave henrie
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> Please be sure to report back on your experience. > I used VS for the last America's Cup sail racing challenge > and found it to be a wonderfully innovative way to follow > a series of races on the opposite side of the world from me. > > I will be very interested in how it works for auto sports. >Yeah, and they also use it in a really nice way on the TV coverage as well.
The more I watch rallying (now that I'm able to), the more and more I think
that THESE GUYS are the best drivers in the world.
Hell, cutting it close on a track is one thing, cutting it close on a 100
meter drop is something COMPLETELY different.
TB
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> From: "Wayne M. Grenon" <[email hidden]> > Organization: ATT Broadband > Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:26:17 GMT > Subject: Re: Virtual Spectator for WRC... Waaay Coool!!! > > Man, what an amazing piece of work. I love WRC, and this makes a visual > tool to see where people win or lose the rallys. > > "Jay J" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:34bm8.86846$q2.9692@sccrnsc01... >> http://carbon.virtualspectator.com/wrvs/introduction.htm >> >> I ordered mine today $10 for Rally Catalunya, can't wait for Friday to > check >> it out! >> >> >> >> > >Well,
I'm sorry to say that as of this writing, 23:10 CST on Friday night 3/22
(that would be 5:10am GMT, Sat AM the 23rd of March) I still haven't been
able to view the VS data for day one of the Catallunya Rally.
I received a message when logging on that they are having problems getting
and processing the GPS data. Also, they have a FAQ that states that for now
you'll only see the road, on a black background, not the rocks, trees,
mountains that have been shown on the TV broadcasts.
They say that as time goes on and they get the bugs worked out this will
change but frankly I'm a bit disappointed so far.
I was expecting real time, or near real time data, rather than having to
wait 12+ hours to see the side by side comparisons of drivers.
Hell I could have gotten that much online at www.wrc.com or simply via
watching the programming.
We'll see how good it is once the data becomes available, but at this point
I'm a bit discouraged and probably wouldn't order it for the next rally.
Jay J
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> > "440825" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Please be sure to report back on your experience. > > I used VS for the last America's Cup sail racing challenge > > and found it to be a wonderfully innovative way to follow > > a series of races on the opposite side of the world from me. > > > > I will be very interested in how it works for auto sports. > > > There is a free demo with some fictious drivers. It looks very good. > I'm impressed. When they showed the Olympics, they tried putting two > bobsleds onscreen at once. That is something WRC needs to get...Us > Americans like to know who's ahead... > dave henrie > >"Jay J" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> We'll see how good it is once the data becomes available, but at this
> point I'm a bit discouraged and probably wouldn't order it for the
> next rally.> .
FWIW there were bugs and feature problems in the early stages of the
AC coverage, too. But they were ironed out. I think these folks are
pretty conciensous. I had some minor problems in the first weeks of
AC coverage using a limited features version I purchased online for
a discounted rate. Later, w/o my asking or expecting, they sent me
the full version on CD at no charge. Hang in there, I bet they'll
get this working as promised.
