Want to race against Kimi, Hamilton and Alonso...?

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Soon you will be able to.

It seems a company in the Netherlands wants to have all the cars in a GP mapped with GPS and have the results pumped directly into a computer game. Allowing you to watch the race live, while actually racing.

A brilliant idea apart from there will be no AI and the cars will not react to your presence. I can't see Kimi's engineer coming over the radio saying "watch out, Duncan is right behind you from his sofa".


Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7440658.stm
 
Takuma Sato will no doubt have a go.
 
And there I thought you were going to talk about some kind of GT5:P competition, and I was already planning to complain about my lack of a PS3. Bah!
 
BBC News
"If Hamilton is driving behind you he can't see you [in the game], so he would drive right through you," explained Mr Lurling.

"So the AI takes over at that point and you see a very realistic overtaking."

The system also handles the results of in-game collisions between real and virtual drivers.

In this case, the real car always drives away. The gamer's fate is less certain.

"We go for optimal realism but the game experience has to be right," he said.
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Interesting but a bit too gimmicky. The fun factor is limited to the "OMG I'm racing in a race which is going on right now!". The fact you can't really affect the race that much will make a lot of people lose interest.
Also, there are issues with time zones and what not, but that can be overcome simply by saving the GPS data somewhere.

At best, this is a nice idea for improving AI in racing games.....but I think everyone worked out 8 years ago that AI will never match the experience of playing with real players. This idea is sort of in between being AI and real movements (not pre-written random movements).
I predict a flop, a lot of money wasted and it will be forgotten in a year or so.
 
I think it will be good that you can watch the race from wherever you want. 'Hey bob bobson just crashed, lets go to the crash site'
 
BBC News
"If Hamilton is driving behind you he can't see you [in the game], so he would drive right through you," explained Mr Lurling.
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Ahhhh, so that's why he drove into Kimi. 💡
 
It could work so well, you may not be able to influence the race but it would certainly make watching boring races more fun! The thing with what DQ said about the cars not reacting to your presence, in the article it says it could blend seemlessly between real and ai so the car would pull some sort of overtaking move before blending back into reality.

If they do this right this could be a new era in racing simualtion.
 
and what about rain and safety car etc. sounds like a cool idea but I doubt it will really work.
 
i HOPE this "computer game" is Rfactor

MildAshers
in the article it says it could blend seamlessly between real and ai so the car would pull some sort of overtaking move before blending back into reality
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never thought about it that way
 

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