GT5′s Head-Tracking “Underwhelming”, But Damage “Looking Beautiful”
One of the new features in Gran Turismo 5 I’ve personally been looking forward to is head-tracking. Unless you’ve got the luxury of playing racing games on three screens, the ability to look into and through the turns – just as you should do in real life – provides a considerably more immersive experience. GT5‘s head-tracking was first shown in limited action at E3 2010, but it was reportedly difficult to use because of surrounding conditions the PlayStation Eye had to deal with. According to a recent article from the Official PlayStation Magazine, however, the functionality isn’t perfect. Quoting the magazine from this article at CVG.com:
“Face-tracking using the PS Eye works on the 200 cars with cockpits and lets you look around by tilting your face away fro the screen, but the early demo we played left us underwhelmed. Head-tracking has been working well on PC for years using IR camera and reference makers but PS Eye is a simpler camera and Gran Turismo applies a digital interpretation to an analogue movement. A slight glance to the left or right is translated by the game after a considerable delay as a full 90-degree crane of your neck. Hopefully Polyphony can smooth things out before release.”
Let’s hope head-tracking functionality can be smoothed out in software, and that it’s functionality is not hindered by practical limitations in the PS Eye hardware.
Finally, in a bit of good news, the magazine editors got to see more of GT5‘s damage system, confirming that it “accurately models mechanic and cosmetic damage to an absurd degree” and “looks beautiful”.
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July 28th, 2010 at 7:44 pm - #Brandon
The GT series has never let me down. I’ve never followed the release date or paid such close attention to the anticipated features like I have with GT5 but interior view on all cars or not I’m confident that, like with every other version, I’ll be completely blown away once I get the game in my PS3. If you’ve taken the time and demonstrated the level of interest that motivated you to visit this website then you will be buying the game, regardless or what your whiney posts might infer.
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July 26th, 2010 at 11:09 pm - #pS3GUY
srry about the incomplete comment, i accedenatly clicked the left button on submit, so like i was sayin, i was repilying to mitsifumi-san’s comment, stupid guy, u need a forum account
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July 26th, 2010 at 11:06 pm - #pS3GUY
@mitsifumi-san
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July 26th, 2010 at 5:56 pm - #DOH
For those who keeps saying nfs anf forza and iracing and what not all have cockpit views. your are forgetting about the quality of those cockpit views. think about it.
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July 26th, 2010 at 11:03 pm - #pS3GUY
You’re right, the only reason forza has cockpits on all cars is because they are in lower quility and they dont have to worry about putting beautiful details on 1000 cars
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July 25th, 2010 at 12:13 pm - #FORZA OWNS!
looool whos gonna buy this???
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July 25th, 2010 at 9:32 am - #sht
200 cars? sad to say only tinted glass for 800
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July 24th, 2010 at 2:36 pm - #BoBo
One word, GIMMICK!! why would i spend money on a camera to move the drivers head?
The right analogue could do that.
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July 25th, 2010 at 11:48 am - #FORZA OWNS!!!
TRUE!!!!
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July 24th, 2010 at 1:06 am - #BWX
The problem is this.. are they going to drop all the cockpits from GT5p? Of course not.. So we are only going to have ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NEW PREMIUM cars with NEW COCKPITS. that we haven’t seen in GT5p.
That’s still a lot of cars, but the guy in the article saying:“GT5 will feature over 1,000 cars – with 200 never before seen in a GT game” is BS– 80 or so of the premium cars are GT5p cars!! WTF
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July 23rd, 2010 at 11:35 pm - #mitsifumi-san
Hi!!! GT fan,
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I herald of osaka, japan.
Won’t you please welcome me? For I am a good fan.
My english is much desired and for this I am sorry and angry. I will try to understand me. You will understand me.
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Thank to all, GT fan. I create review of GT5 when complete! Here special.
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July 23rd, 2010 at 9:43 pm - #Matt
Whether or not interior views are included on all cars doesn’t matter to me in the least. The bonnet cam is, in my opinion, the most realistic, since what our eyes focus on the most when we drive in real life is the bonnet and road, and not the dash and steering wheel. This fact alone makes the prospect of GT5 living up my expectations much greater. Once I have them unlocked, I’ll probably spend most of my time racing with F1 and Le Mans cars.
Nor am I concerned with the number of tracks. This is something that DLC can remedy, along with tweaks to the physics. I fully expect there to be only 20 tracks, divided between rally, road, and oval. Some folks seem to be laboring under the hope that 20 tracks will be included for each discipline of racing. I’m sorry but, at least in terms of the release date package, that isn’t going to be the case.
Onward to November 2nd!
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July 23rd, 2010 at 11:18 am - #lez67
for the news on cockpit views,they did say in a private interview at e3 that standard cars will have what pd calls “generic” interiors,there are people that prefer bumper view & others like cockpit views but i do get fed up with people who say they’ve used bumper view since gt1 well up to gt3 thats the only view u had aswell as with the behind the car view & gt4 added a bonnet view but to think that one of prologue’s biggest selling point was the added in car view,i hope pd cater’s for all gamers dispite what view you prefer cos to me not having any kind of cockpit view on standard cars will be a backward step,it would be nice if pd would confirm things so it’ll put a stop to all the doubt
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July 23rd, 2010 at 10:13 am - #Colt16v
If GT5 doesn’t incl. cockpit view for all cars, i won’t buy it. Seriously, its not a simulator if you can’t get the in-car feeling, even if the 800 non-premium cars will only feature a standard interior view.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 4:32 pm - #gt.ireland
when do the pre-orders get dispatched from argos
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July 22nd, 2010 at 7:19 pm - #Corrado
Well theoretically pre-orders from any retailer are despatched on the day of release.
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July 23rd, 2010 at 10:05 am - #buffig
they are generally despatched to reach you by release day. This means that you quite often get the game 1 if not 2 days before release, as has happened to me numerous times
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:50 pm - #hrusa2
It si great to hear that many guys are not getting the game because the cockpit view. there will be no shortage of gt5. good to me. seriously. GT3 had no more than 160 cars. and it was the best gt game for most fans.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 pm - #George Washington
GT3 was bizarre. GT4 got it right.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:31 pm - #Geo_212
Maybe they’ll show off the new damage model at the PlayStation Beta thingy… :D
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:51 pm - #ElieTheBear
there wasnt any yet … just doors bumbers and scratches.. not deformation … what will happen to the bumper cam it the bumper fall off
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July 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 pm - #Nato_777
Maybe when the bumber falls off and ends up face down in the grass on the side of the track we’ll get to watch ants or something crawling past for the rest of the race.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 pm - #Geo_212
Haha, that’d be pretty funny if the camera went with your bumper if you hit a wall xP
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July 22nd, 2010 at 7:20 pm - #Corrado
@Nato Lool Love it XD
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July 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 pm - #Geo_212
Haha, that’s brilliant, Nato! xP
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:15 pm - #Rainman
“accurately models mechanic and cosmetic damage to an absurd degree”
love that quote..hehe
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:07 pm - #Dom
Thank you Jordan for the objective informations all the time. It’s good to see that this is not a censored fanboy site. Nevertheless, GT5 will be – without a doubt – a great game, so we should all be able to credit the hard work with nerdy comments from time to time ;)
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Head tracking would be cool, but I fear that full rendering the degree to which your head moves could be complicated for the PS3 and the frame-rate could suffer. Not sure about the overhead and/or the possible precision. -
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm - #jBat17
look, GT5:P has 80 cars, all with cockpit view.. are you telling me that there will only be about 120 other cars in GT5 will cockpit view?
this does not make any sense. all cars will have cockpit view but only a premium cars will have interior view, wherein you can see all the of inside.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:08 pm - #danielwhite74
Polyphony took 2 years to model those 80 cars, which aren’t nearly as detailed as Gran Turismo 5′s vehicles. Add that to the fact that they have mostly been focussing on rebuilding the entire physics model and introducing new features, et cetera. 200 cars is a perfectly reasonable number.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 3:22 pm - #Obli
^ logical thinking. 200 with cockpit sounds about right.
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July 24th, 2010 at 1:01 am - #BWX
The problem is this.. are they going to drop all the cockpits from GT5p? Of course not.. So we are only going to have ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NEW PREMIUM cars with NEW COCKPITS. that we haven’t seen in GT5p.
That’s still a lot of cars, but the guy in the article saying:“GT5 will feature over 1,000 cars – with 200 never before seen in a GT game” is BS– 80 or so of the premium cars are GT5p cars!! WTF Why are people so thick headed? Especially people writing articles on a website.
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July 24th, 2010 at 2:32 pm - #BoBo
yep , interior view and drivers view is the same doe
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July 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 pm - #ElieTheBear
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QUOTE: “but PS Eye is a simpler camera and Gran Turismo applies a digital interpretation to an analogue movement. A slight glance to the left or right is translated by the game after a considerable delay as a full 90-degree crane of your neck. Hopefully Polyphony can smooth things out before release.”
Now I am not very techy but I believe you can use any webcam on PS3 so would a better quality webcam give a better result than the PS Eye, or is tied in with the digital interpretation to analogue movement?