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Title: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: WMLute on March 29, 2010, 06:43:13 PM
Check this out.

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3CaoeV9g0E)

Not sure how to make this work with AcesHigh but it looks like they have a flight sim in the works for it.

Wow!
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Spikes on March 29, 2010, 06:46:14 PM
That...is....AWESOME.
I wonder what would happen if you decided to pull straight vertical at 400mph on the deck in a plane...
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Jayhawk on March 29, 2010, 06:52:25 PM
I like the big red abort button.  It's gotta be fun if it requires an "Oh S&%*! Stop this thing now!" button.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: phatzo on March 29, 2010, 06:55:36 PM
I like the big red abort button.  It's gotta be fun if it requires an "Oh S&%*! Stop this thing now!" button.
needs a barf bag too, but WOW how much fun would that be.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: AirFlyer on March 29, 2010, 07:53:19 PM
Never would my A6M see an other forced stall roll if I knew I was going to spin around with it... :noid
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Meatwad on March 29, 2010, 07:55:49 PM
From the way it was handling on that game, looks like its turned up too high
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Penguin on March 29, 2010, 08:45:55 PM
What about falling off a cliff?

-Penguin
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: RTGorkle on March 29, 2010, 08:49:57 PM
From the way it was handling on that game, looks like its turned up too high

IMO, the wild tilting is not about going up and down hills on the track. It's about using gravity to simulate the forces on your body due to acceleration. The exaggerated tilting backwards and forwards, respectively, ensures gravity pulls you back in the seat when accelerating and throws you forward against the straps when braking. Likewise, the sideways tilting is so that gravity pulls you to the sides of the seat when cornering (cornering is also a form of accceleration).

Looks very cool. Might play havoc with TrackIR though!
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: gyrene81 on March 29, 2010, 09:02:40 PM
Looks very cool. Might play havoc with TrackIR though!
I wonder if a mini gyro based wireless unit would be better than IR in something like that....  :headscratch:
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Flipperk on March 29, 2010, 11:10:30 PM
......................



my gawd.......




 :confused:  :x

Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Reschke on March 30, 2010, 12:22:18 AM
Too much movement due to the lack of vehicle weight for that game. Having driven a high horsepower race car before I know what they feel like and you certainly don't jump around that much but it is purely because of the weight.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Frodo on March 30, 2010, 12:45:53 AM
What about falling off a cliff?

-Penguin

Darn penguins always worried about falling off cliffs!  :devil
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Cougar68 on March 30, 2010, 01:05:33 AM
Too much movement due to the lack of vehicle weight for that game. Having driven a high horsepower race car before I know what they feel like and you certainly don't jump around that much but it is purely because of the weight.

Like Gorkle says it's all about using gravity to try and simulate the G forces you would normally feel in the car.  High end flight simulators do the same thing.  Unfortunately without a cage around this unit to block the outside world i think it would just serve to reincarnate whatever you just ate. 
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: phatzo on March 30, 2010, 01:48:01 AM
I went in a simulator at indy a few years ago that simulated a lap of bathurst with Craig Lowndes in a v8 falcon and thats exactly how it worked but you were closed in and it felt very realistic.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Kazaa on March 30, 2010, 03:12:24 AM
Best simpit I've seen yet, also the scarest!!!
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Gixer on March 30, 2010, 07:41:07 AM
Suppose to be on a motorbike? Looks screwed up that example, leaning right when he turning left and vice versa...  :rolleyes:

28k complete waste of money could buy a real track bike and still have plenty left over for a whole years worth of track days,tyres and maintenance.

(http://www.brisbaneulysses.org.au/gallery/TrackDays%202.jpg)



<S>...-Gixer
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: RTHolmes on March 30, 2010, 08:04:44 AM
Looks screwed up that example, leaning right when he turning left and vice versa...  :rolleyes:

nope thats correct, turn left and your body is forced the right just like IRL, its a car not a bike remember. for a bike sim presumably you'd mostly be leaning back in a turn to simulate the force down through the seat.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Saurdaukar on March 30, 2010, 09:07:35 AM
You can buy a plane for $28,000.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: 68ZooM on March 30, 2010, 11:59:10 AM
WOW seems like it wants to toss ya out lol.... heres another one which i bet would cost way less to build and little more tame lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPxcoX7ivk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPxcoX7ivk)
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Sonicblu on March 30, 2010, 12:55:32 PM
I rode this one at San Diego air and space.

LOL the guy  running the thing was impressed that I even got it off the ground with no help. He said most people cant even get it of the runway.

www.maxflight.com/fs2000equipment.html

This is the flight sim i want  :x
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: druski85 on March 30, 2010, 03:42:37 PM
...invest it.  At 4% interest (somewhat modest) and with quarterly compounding, you will be $3495.8 dollars richer in a year.  Assuming current inflation of 2.14%, you still are coming out well ahead.   :old:


Or you could buy the silly vomit machine.  Your choice.   :devil
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Spikes on March 30, 2010, 03:45:29 PM
Suppose to be on a motorbike? Looks screwed up that example, leaning right when he turning left and vice versa...  :rolleyes:


Force.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: phatzo on March 30, 2010, 03:50:07 PM
Suppose to be on a motorbike? Looks screwed up that example, leaning right when he turning left and vice versa...  :rolleyes:

28k complete waste of money could buy a real track bike and still have plenty left over for a whole years worth of track days,tyres and maintenance.

(http://www.brisbaneulysses.org.au/gallery/TrackDays%202.jpg)



<S>...-Gixer
true, I bought a track ready CBR400 for two grand a few years ago. What to do with the other 26?
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Gixer on March 30, 2010, 04:39:42 PM
its a car not a bike remember.

Really I havent seen a car do wheelies before through any gear let alone 3. Or thats what it looked like with amount of degrees moving up each time.. Oh well..

Who the heck would want to simulate a frig cage anyway....Boring enough in real life let alone a game....   :rofl


<S>...-Gixer
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Jayhawk on March 30, 2010, 04:59:22 PM
IMO, the wild tilting is not about going up and down hills on the track. It's about using gravity to simulate the forces on your body due to acceleration. The exaggerated tilting backwards and forwards, respectively, ensures gravity pulls you back in the seat when accelerating and throws you forward against the straps when braking. Likewise, the sideways tilting is so that gravity pulls you to the sides of the seat when cornering (cornering is also a form of accceleration).


Quoted because it is an excellent point but some aren't reading it.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: dkff49 on March 30, 2010, 06:49:26 PM
Really I havent seen a car do wheelies before through any gear let alone 3. Or thats what it looked like with amount of degrees moving up each time.. Oh well..

Who the heck would want to simulate a frig cage anyway....Boring enough in real life let alone a game....   :rofl


<S>...-Gixer

Watch the monitor in the video. There is no wheelie on the monitor which is the reason it is assumed to be a car that he is driving. Like others have said the movement that the sim is making is supposed to mimmick g-forces not the movement within the game.

As interesting as that thing is I would never spend $28,000 on something like it for my personal useage either.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Penguin on March 31, 2010, 06:54:15 PM
Darn penguins always worried about falling off cliffs!  :devil

Cowards fall, the brave leap, you sharp tounged rascal!  ;)  Watch as we hurtle toward the fridgid water of the Antarctic, and then gracefully glide about within it, like swallows of the sea.

-Penguin
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: 68ZooM on April 01, 2010, 01:22:09 AM
Watch as we hurtle toward the fridgid water of the Antarctic, and then gracefully fall into the mouths of waiting Orca's like swallows of the sea.

-Penguin

    Fixed for National Geographic content  :D
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: BiPoLaR on April 01, 2010, 02:01:11 AM
id like to try it out while in a flat spin :D  :rock
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: uptown on April 01, 2010, 06:02:11 AM
I'm really surprized his mother would let him set that thing up in the diningroom.

If you drop 28 grand on one of these and it don't make you any money, you have serious issues.
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: uptown on April 01, 2010, 06:06:09 AM
You can buy a plane for $28,000.
werd  :aok
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Penguin on April 03, 2010, 07:04:22 PM
    Fixed for National Geographic content  :D

Meanie.

(http://en.citizendium.org/images/thumb/5/58/Penguin-angry-tran.1.gif/203px-Penguin-angry-tran.1.gif)

-Penguin
Title: Re: If you got $28,000 laying about...
Post by: Frodo on April 03, 2010, 07:38:23 PM
Cowards fall, the brave leap, you sharp tounged rascal!  ;)  Watch as we hurtle toward the fridgid water of the Antarctic, and then gracefully glide about within it, like swallows of the sea.

-Penguin


 :D   :cheers: