All you racing simulator addicts! You will love this

[Doz007]

what is with the stupidly excessive movement?

This was my initial thought aswell. Maybe this could be better used well in flight sims though?

 

[sorn21]

Want.

 

[moremoney]

120k, i could build a REAL helmet with that.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

Wonder if its more eco friendly to buy a car and race it or use that thing. electricity bill must be high.

 

[Biohazard]

This was my initial thought aswell. Maybe this could be better used well in flight sims though?

Yeah, that is completely crap for playing a car game.

Unless it was toned down 100x.

What car does that speed and that angle on roads? none.

Not very accurate racing simulation to me.

 

[marc512]

Wonder if its more eco friendly to buy a car and race it or use that thing. electricity bill must be high.

Accualy its ment to be quite good. It can last upto 10-15 years without hydrolic refils and replacement parts. but electricity i guess it could be high

 

[Duran]

Yeah, that is completely crap for playing a car game.

Unless it was toned down 100x.

What car does that speed and that angle on roads? none.

Not very accurate racing simulation to me.

the movement is there to generate the g-forces.

 

[Phatjayunoi]

the movement is there to generate the g-forces.

Even then I think that is still insanely over the top. I would rather the machine just slides and slightly tilts the seat realistically instead. Something like this is more akin to an expensive version of what you would get in old-school Sega Arcade games cabinets like After Burner or as mentioned above, more for some sort of off-road racing game, hell maybe even a speed-boat racer!

 

[rick fowler]

wooooo i want one. need to buy another house to have it in and knock a few walls down,pitty the price tag is a bit high,i can only but dream o well back to the day job

 

[Efour]

Hope they make one of these for Minesweeper and Scrabble Deluxe

 

[neoboy]

Heh for 120k you can buy yourself a racing car

 

[Sem]

if i won the euro lotto and got a big house i would buy and it hook GT5 up to it

 

[Gittins]

That would be awsome driving that drunkerd!

 

[Angilion]

Looks a bit weird for a racing car motion wise... seems to tilt upwards waaay too much even for trying to simulate the effect of acceleration.

I think it would seem quite different if you were in it, because your attention would be mostly on the monitors, which remain fixed relative to the seat. You would therefore perceive much less movement, assuming you were focussed on the monitors and mostly ignoring the background. To get the full effect of that, the machine would have to be enclosed so that the driver couldn't see the outside world.

It wouldn't be anywhere near as much force as the real thing, though. Even if it tilted all the way, you could only get 1g.

 

[adam cool dude]

120k on that or 120k on a real track car and running costs. simple choice really.

 

[OldComputerGuy7]

This company makes a similar device but maybe not so big and i think IIRC it was $15,000.

http://www.force-dynamics.com/

It would be awesome to have either of those machines though.

 

[antran]

looks like more of a flight sim. then a driving sim.

 

[marc512]

This company makes a similar device but maybe not so big and i think IIRC it was $15,000.

http://www.force-dynamics.com/

It would be awesome to have either of those machines though.

that seems more like my thing! but i doubt games will support that cause of the monitor

 

[Alex_6n2]

There was one of those at Loughborough Uni when I went for my interview 4 years ago. It was ghetto compared to that thing but it was still awesome fun.

 

[Zerolimitz]

ill take 2 please