The ultimate peripheral

Now I would love to play Gran Turismo like that! :icon_bigg

There was another vid similar to this, but the unit was rather bulky. I can't find the source, and the watermark links to a totaly unrelated page.

Thanks for the link!

 

The screen should not move but be fixed on the wall

 

Why? It's supposed to simulate a car, and last I checked, when I move in my car my windscreen comes with me. Wherever your driving position is the screen should always be directly in front of you.

 

oh my god, now i want one
see the information below on that monster!

btw: nice to see another german here
hello eken, introduce yourself in the introducing thread!!

 

A friend of mine got the DFP wheel, then bought a seat from a crashed Audi S3, got some iron tubes and solder everything. He made a kind of table for the DSP, so he connects it and voilá, a drivers seat.

Nothing extreme like the one on the video, but it works.

 

Is that made by the same people who make the military simulators?

 

Looks similar to Sega's latest offering

http://www.segaarcade.com/video/cycraft.asp

 

yeah the car windscreen moves, but not the street;-)

 

Yep, but to be a convincing simulator the game should be "making the street move". A windscreen is always in front of you, no matter what is outside of it - if the game doesn't show what it should be then thats the games fault not the design of ther chair

 

Someone should just go "All out" and make replace the windshield of a real car with a similar sized tv of that of a windshield, and add all the physics junk you can to make it feel real.

Maybe even put airbags to deploy every time you crash. It could be a safer way of teaching people to drive, maybe.

 

Heck, if airline pilots can use flight simulators to learn how to fly that move and jolt (similar technlogy is used in many amusment park simulator rides), why not build one for cars/driving
Make it a cross between a Ridge Racer Full Size arcade machine and one of the things in that video. Make the car move hydraulically along with changing screens (and fully functioning dials etc)

 

As long as they make the seat spin upsidown when you crash and roll the car. That would be cool.

 

I still don't understand why simulators are only using a single screen. If you are going to go so far as to give (restricted) 6-DOF motion, then adding a couple of screens for peripheral vision is relatively easy. For a machine like this, another $1000 to the cost is nothing.

 

Wasn't Sega's Hard Drivin' supposed to be a sim to help with driving lessons, till they turned it into an arcade game?

 

I'd love one of these, but made for the Ace Combat series. That would rock insanely.

 

Gotta agree with you :thumbsup:

 

Pretty awesome

But this guy doesn`t have a clue

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wD8sEWD3B_0&search=videogame%20simulator%20racing%20driving%20intense%20racecar



I must admit I went on a Ferrari F1 Simulator a few years ago....like those flight and bob sleigh rides

HOLY FUCK!!!!

If this as I expect was anywhere near what those guys take when driving then Schumacher deserves every penny he gets :nod:

 

ok so now i want one for xmas but not in orange can it be black or chromed ? =)

 

I remember seeing a video like the one Kevin posted, it was the same guy except he flipped his car. He got his ASS handed to him by the chair. It was scary:lol: