Head movement inside car

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dancardesigner
Beerz
While driving a real car, although your head will move, your eyes will focus the same spot and your brain will work in a way that you'll barely change your perception of the surroundings.QUOTE]

+1000:tup: Was going to say the exact same thing. I'm totally against too much head movement, because the way it portrayed on screen is unrealistic.

You can prove this by simply focussing at an object now in front of you and shaking your head. Your eyes still focus on the same point. Your peripheral vision helps to smooth things out, things don't appear as jerky in real life.
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No. No. No.

The surroundings won't move (a lot), and they won't move that much in the game either.

So what's the poblem then? It doesn't get any harder to play, it just feels more real.
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dancardesigner
humpus
I don't get what you are trying to say at all?
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You complain that in real life the surroundings don't move (at all, or a little), because your brain fixes on a point in the distance.
That's all true, I agree, but that doesn't change the fact that your head (and your whole body actually) is moving in the car.

Your brain just ignores the changes with objects close to you, because you are focussing far away.

If head movement were to be introduced the same way as in real life, the same changes (shaking, looking into a corner) would occur on screen but you would still (almost) ignore them because you're looking at the track ahead.

But contrary to the very limited head movement we have now, the experience will be more real to life because you get the idea that you're moving inside the car.
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humpus
dancardesigner
You complain that in real life the surroundings don't move (at all, or a little), because your brain fixes on a point in the distance.
That's all true, I agree, but that doesn't change the fact that your head (and your whole body actually) is moving in the car.

Your brain just ignores the changes with objects close to you, because you are focussing far away.

If head movement were to be introduced the same way as in real life, the same changes (shaking, looking into a corner) would occur on screen but you would still (almost) ignore them because you're looking at the track ahead.

But contrary to the very limited head movement we have now, the experience will be more real to life because you get the idea that you're moving inside the car.
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Ahh, i understand what you are saying now. Thing is though when i look at those vids where the whole screen is moving it doesn't seem right. Its seems too violent, looking at a small screen and being completly immersed in real life have two very different feelings, You don't realy see so much of the cockpit in real life, most of your vision is out the window. With most of your attention being focussed in the distance, things won't seem to move about as lot.
To get across what i mean, wave your hand close to your face, and again wave your hand a few feet away from your face.

Edit: Actually that is an incorrect example but you get what i mean.
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I know what you mean too, but for me the effects we have today are too little.

I'd even be happy if you just bounced a bit more in the car, everything is too damn static.
It's like watching a touring car race with a mounted camera, the feel of speed is totally gone.
 
I would like head movement in GT5, as in NFS Shift. To me it just seems to make the whole experience more immersive which is a bit missing in GT5P.
 

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