Gran Turismo 5 GPS Functionality, 3D Confirmed
Here’s some of the first news to come out of the Tokyo Auto Salon 2010: Polyphony Digital has partnered with auto technology company Denso to develop a “GPS-track day unit”, one of which will be included in the new Toyota FT-86G. It works by monitoring your position as you put in hot laps around a real-world track (which is also in GT5, of course). Pull the memory card out of your car and plug it into your PS3, and the data collected will be used to reconstruct your lap within the game. From there, you’ll be able to watch your replay or compete against yourself by loading the replay as a “ghost” car.
According to MotorTrend, Polyphony and Denso’s GPS unit was tested in a race-spec Lexus IS-F at the Nurburgring last October (probably during Yamauchi’s VLN race). MotorTrend editor Peter Lyon was also able to confirm that a “3D version” of GT5 will be available “as soon as 3D TVs become available on the market,” (Sony’s 3D TVs will be available this summer).
Thanks to Snaeper for sending this in!
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January 19th, 2010 at 1:23 pm - #Rocker
This is definitely a *wow* factor all the way, but I agree with the points:
- VERY limited use for < 95% of all GT5 players
- Unnecessary delay and use of PD time/resourcesRacing against someone elses data might be fun, especially real-world professional racers. And not necessarily on track days either. How about loading up the winning racer for real-world sanctioned races? THAT would be cool.
Lets go a step further. How about loading up the entire field for a given race, hmmm?
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:04 pm - #MitsuStigi
Nice comments. Now I see a true nature of this feature. Imagine competing against Schumi or even the Stig! In GT5 of course. :D :D :D
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:43 am - #Maximou
If someone wanna see how the thing works and how precise it is : http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/news/d8925.html
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January 17th, 2010 at 9:56 pm - #Robin
Wow a feature that no one cares about fitted to a car that no one can buy! Seriously PD stop messing around and finish the damn game!
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January 17th, 2010 at 4:31 am - #vampire63
GT5 news are like drugs ( i need my dose every 12 hours or i will get crazy )
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January 17th, 2010 at 1:57 am - #Moon
why does kaz, PD and Sony put out useless news… give us more useful info… im not going to buy this game because it has integrated GPS with a car i will never buy…
how deep are the tuning and customization in the game???
where is the new damage system??
where is the WRC/Rally aspect of the game???
they need to stop avoiding the real questions.
these “i cant get into detail” or “i cant say right now” answers are getting really old Kaz… this game has been in the making for 5 years and is close to release… you should start knowing and getting into Details.
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January 16th, 2010 at 4:56 pm - #—Stone—
More news… we need more GT5 news…put the cowbells down and get more GT5. we need more GT5 news.
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January 16th, 2010 at 3:49 pm - #Nixo
pretty usefull for a avarage person.. :P
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January 16th, 2010 at 3:25 pm - #vampire63
News News News we want news
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January 16th, 2010 at 3:12 pm - #Bolg
Thats some craaaazy s**t, once again PD shows just how awesome they are.
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January 16th, 2010 at 3:08 pm - #Jake
I think it’d be neat if they could use the Nascar GPS that they use to track the cars during races and use it to actually race against real drivers while on GT5… It’s kinda out there, but it’d would be pretty cool if it worked. Maybe sometime in the distant future something like that could be possible?
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January 16th, 2010 at 2:47 pm - #Dan
Because gps doesn’t measure acceleration, breaking and steering input, my guess is that the ghosts you will load from this device will be different from the ones we see now. They will just be visual representions of whatever the gps recorded, and the actual model of the ghost will be irrelevant since there it contains no physics data. You could, in theory, drive a real life FT-86 around real life fuji and have the ghost car be a volkswagon beetle.
It should be interesting to see how they implement the ghost cars for this. What about brake lights and the angle of the front wheels mid corner for the ghost?
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January 16th, 2010 at 2:07 pm - #Zarathustra
This game will blow away the entire world.
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January 16th, 2010 at 1:33 pm - #Max Mosley
The only benefit of this to the majority of people who will play Gran Turismo 5 is, if on GT5 official site you will be able to download the gps data of actual race drivers onto your ps3 for you to race against.
As far as actually using your own racing data, you would have to buy the Denso GPS unit, have a car that is represented on the game and by the gps unit (I somehow doubt the ps3 will be able to decode by the data exactly what car you are driving and project a visual representation for you to compete against) this feauture will probably limted to a few models and have access to one tracks that are also represented in the game. For all of you say you will find this feature useful you must be very resourceful.
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January 16th, 2010 at 12:50 pm - #Flagmo-T
1st of all.. Sorry for my knacking reply yesterday!! I had just been driving GT5P Online for a couple of hours on Expert Pp800 Fuji with a great bunch of drivers in a chat group, and stopped it, because of – You Know.. to many unsportly like Drivers coming in to a great experience, they actually ruins any Nice Dreams on GT5, and it continues to be that way until the release of GT5..and Hopefully!! it will be a total different experience driving online, Because that part the should have solved by now Right!..
I Can’t stay away friom this News section, Jordan is so good add it!! :O) and of course it’s still News Though!! and I will Count to 10 next time I’m writing out of my head..
KY if your are reading This Then Please consider if it could be the time, to release interviews with some of the real drivers ( Sebastian Loeb/ Nascar driver ?/Indy driver ?) ‘s experience of driving these Sim Modes in the Real Driving simulator, they don’t nessesary has to reveal any deep technic regarding the Modes it self, That’s for you! do and soon please, It’s Time!!
This GPS, as so many has wrote some useful ideas about, Does give some since afterall, I do see the ideas of how it can be used, so Nice it is i Guess :O) The 3D tv and further new Sony products will of course has add a greater experience of driving GT5-6-7, But because of it being constantly delayed, I have used up all my savings for the release date 2 times ago, and I won’t pay for yet a new 40″ TV, I’ve got 3 now!! hehe I really belived that I was up too Par, with my great setup, ps3-Eye for head moving, big 100Mhz SOnny 40″ Great surruound system, playseat alcantara, Df-GT and a room for my self to drive 120% focused as pSN ID: Team_MOFF-No2.. and yet some in my new system will be a little old school, when Gt5 finally reaches us users.. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=387503100&albumID=1762345&imageID=28666028
And excuse Me, we could experience lots of Updates before it actually will work up too par (overall Game).. we need action sooner then later KY.. Lets hear some real stories of what we could expect, in the different categories so we actually have something solid info aboout the Gran Turismo 5.. I for one don’t mind if lots of things couldn’t be better then it is, that’s the biggest issue of Balancing a game as huge as this, on such a small Console like the PS3 ( when talking further Gaming ) it will still be loved and treasured around the world, and it will also be the one to Beat!! But this weird talk about Beating other Nice attempts isn’t really what’s going on in PD ( I hope not) because then life is to short..:O)Has any of your heard about I-opener Racing, now that’s a new attempt for some real Racing VS Virtuell racing, you as a virtuall Racer, races against real racers on Tracks Like Holder. Now thats a good thing for further Sim Race.. http://www.virtualr.net/iopener-beta-test-signup-open/ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJ_sIH631w&feature=player_embedded# Now this could be the same kind of ideas for Racing in GT5, and it’s a cool feature :)
WRC has announced that they are going into Gaming, and promise That you as a Racer, will be able to race the same stages, and compare your time with ex: Sebastian L or Ken Block ( 2010 and 2011 for Ford yes please) and Made me think about GT5 again, is Gt5 the Game they were talking about! ? When i think about all what’s been said in GT5 and that article on WRC.com and with this GPS and friendship with SB & KY, then that could be a Orsm Connection that I’ve asked for, for about 2 years ago here on GTplanet! anways other has as well i guess, But that is something I look forward to find out!!
For all of you, I’m Not a Complainer, I do have alot of knowledge in creating Games, I’m a 2D / 3D artist, that is spending all my time in Racing and modding SIm racers (PC) Like Richard Burns Rally, and Others. I’m always going for the Last 10% in a project, because that’s were it all comes to Is It good enough! or can we do better, and yes we can!! lot of nasty textures and wrong decision, can be altered, to workable textures and finally giving the illusion of what it should.. for instance Take the Track Eigar Nordwand, first we had GT-HD’s version, It was beautiful, but need some corrections on the road surface (gt5p) but then The shadows on many spectators was gone on that version, and UPS that is sadly killing the illusion, and that makes you look and think, is that all ( lots of graphical stuff suddenly was visible for the critical eye, ( me anyway, but only because I’m saying well, it doesn’t work properly, we need a new solution, to make the illusion work again, and you didn’t for the GT5p anyway, just hope for the final version to be as good as the HD version, which worked as a great graphical illusion..
That’s why I’m just trying to do what KY so often has asked us all to do, Give input and make your voice heard) but I can do better when making a comment, hehe yes i know!!
Peace Out!! I’m a grown man, actually 48 :P
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January 16th, 2010 at 12:45 pm - #Roope
Sam__NY Says:
January 16th, 2010 at 9:14 amI thought we’d have some more news by now?
—-> me too…
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January 16th, 2010 at 10:27 am - #AMG
My best car sound in gt5p is the Ferrari 512BB 76 you really can hear the turbo whisle begins from 3000 rpm ..
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January 16th, 2010 at 10:02 am - #squishydk
MotorTrend editor Peter Lyon was also able to confirm that a “3D version” of GT5 will be available “as soon as 3D TVs become available on the market,” (Sony’s 3D TVs will be available this summer).
Thats really all i think about in this post. It basically means that GT5 will be here before the 3D (wich will be here in the summer). Theres no way in hell GT53D will be released before GT5 normal. So this highly indicates a release between march and june, and thats what atters for me.
About the gps: Cool device, prolly fun if you have tons of cash. We dont know if real drivers will put times in GT5 – if they do, its ace. If not its waste. But time will tell, as with so many other things in GT
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January 16th, 2010 at 9:52 am - #LordVonPS3
@ Vivian.
Keep in mind that the GPS / Altimeter / gear device being described here is built into the Toyota FT-86. Using the current gear, accelerometer and other data in addition to GPS information would of course make it possible to capture under steer / over steer, etc. All you need to know is what direction the car is facing (compass data), what direction the car is moving (accelerometer data) and what the current x/y/z position the car is at (GPS data).
In terms of what all this means to Gran Turismo 5 fans… The point is that the game will enable the import of data to use for replays / ghosts. GT5 isn’t all about the Toyota FT-86. If you wanted to record data in other cars for specific drivers, then of course you need the relevant car, packing the relevant equipment and you’d need the relevant driver. Otherwise you couldn’t have a GT5 representation of The Stig racing around the Top Gear circuit in a Mercedes SLS AMG.
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The majority of the people who will use this, also played the Turismo games before this, all of them. In other words, Turismo is one of the few games that has grown with it’s players. Turismo’s always worth the wait.