Thought this looked fun: http://www.twitch.tv/gsrc
rms
[email hidden] (rms) wrote:
> Thought this looked fun: http://www.twitch.tv/gsrc
I can barely stand to watch *real* car races, so I find it hard to get excited over
pretend ones... unless I'm behind the wheel. :-)
Spectating some of the Rookie races is a different kind of entertainment; even I
appreciate that... though sometimes there's no swearing, which is a big
disappointment.
Andrew McP
On 27/01/2014 08:05, Andrew MacPherson wrote:>
[email hidden] (rms) wrote:
>
>> Thought this looked fun: http://www.twitch.tv/gsrc
>
> I can barely stand to watch *real* car races, so I find it hard to get excited over
> pretend ones... unless I'm behind the wheel. :-)
I agree, the whole point for me of sim racing is for car racing fans to
get to participate rather than spectate, so the concept of spectating
people driving cars from their basements seems just bizarre!
[email hidden] (Tony R) wrote:
> the concept of spectating people driving cars from
> their basements seems just bizarre!
Grand Prix Legends in their own living rooms. Makes me shudder... though that may
just mean I have to turn the FFB down.
Oh bugger, I said FFB!
Andrew McP
Andrew MacPherson:
[email hidden]:
> the concept of spectating people driving cars from
> their basements seems just bizarre!
Grand Prix Legends in their own living rooms. Makes me shudder... though
that may just mean I have to turn the FFB down.
Oh bugger, I said FFB!
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This is my 10-years old idea, back from Papyrus forum:
You have laser scanned tracks. You have laser scanned cars. You put
a receiver (or few of them) on some real world racing track. You put a
trasmiter on every real life racing car on that track. You transmit the
information of position and yaw of every car in the real life race. You send
this information over the internet. You can stream it live, you can save it
easily for later. You charge for it.
This way a racing fan can have saved every race of season, he can
watch every race from whichever car he wants, from whichever angle he wants,
he can analyze any moment of the race whichever way he wants, frame by
frame ih he wants.
Even more, you can arange this way any race, it doesn't have to be
expensive at all (if you have laser scanned track and cars already). So, you
can transmit this way even local races, races that you will never be able to
watch any other way. You can transmit this way all over the world, american
races can be seen in Mongolia, japanese, australian, german, franch, uk,
finn, swedish, russian races can be seen in America.
With the Oculus Rift you can place yourself in the seat of your
idol, and look around rigth from the seat of his car, and during the race
you can move to the seat in front of that car, or to the seat back of that
car, literaly you could do whatever you like, regarding watching and
enjoying real life races. You can overlay some real time information on your
screen, information selected by you. Telemetry of any car, real
time, position of others, or whatever you want.
And after the race (or even during the race, if you want it), you
can hook up your wheel, and race yourself, with friends, or strangers, with
you sim club, or with anybody in the whole world. That way iRacing could get
a lot of new customers, and race organisations could squezee more money out
of an event, and even local organizations can get world attention, and
posibly get popular around the world.
