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  • #16
    Guys READ replies. The movements are DELIBERAETLY not realistic. NOTHING can be as real as driving but the movements such simulators make are to give you the feeling relative to the seat you're in. The focal point is the screen when you're sitting in it so you're not looking around at your surroundings. To you the screen would be steady and the movement just makes you feel like you're in a car. It has to be that exagerated so it feels like you're moving.

    It wouldn't make you sick and they do feel fairly good. They're not totally realistic obviously but the movement makes you feel like you're driving. Because your focal point (i.e. the screen) is moving in exactly relative to the position you're sitting in, the motion sickness potential is all but removed. Sure, it will still affect some people, but if you're focussed on the screen, you should be fine!

    Until you've experienced something like this, it's hard to understand so I guess that's why there are so many people dismissing it as unrealistic. Looking at it from a 3rd person perspective, it sure does look wrong. But it's not. It's as real as it can feel without being in the real thing.

    Last edited by Rocket36; 12-03-2010, 04:33 PM.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by MattyT View Post
      Cant figure out what track hes on, any guesses?
      Looks like the Hockenheim Circuit...

      Its cool, but where is the drink holder and Grid Girls??
      "If can't get behind your troops, feel free to stand in front of them..."

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      • #18
        grid girls? no way, man.

        last thing i want before getting in the zone (however inexperienced my ''zone'' may be) is a boner....

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        • #19
          rocket36, where do we get one of these babies???? $20k or not, who is the supplier?????
          Tiggy 125TSI, 6 speed manual, tints, comfort pack.

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          • #20
            scott, just the thought of driving an F1 car would get me so aroused, I wouldnt fit in the damn car!
            2007 Audi RS4 with: APR ECU Upgrade; JHM Quick Shifter; Milltek Catback and Downpipes; KW V3 Coilovers; Argon Creative Carbon Fibre Splitters

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            • #21
              I've done a few hundred hours in military flight sims and the basic principle is the same. It is a simulator, not an replicator. You can't ever experience more than around 1g of accel but it is very easy to "fool" the body's otolith and vestibular systems (XYZ axis in inner ear for balance and rotation, and organs for sensing gravity and linear acceleration)

              Once you're immersed in the simulated world, you do start to believe it. (whenever a student pilot crashed I would flinch!)

              And oh yes I wantie!

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