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street-view capturing technique for racetracks

Discussion in 'Off Topic - All other stuff here' started by egoexpress, Mar 6, 2010.

  1. egoexpress

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    Just stumbled over this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRCIwb5Aj0

    They are using a vehicle with 360° cameras (similar to google street-view), but with an additional road/enviroment laser scanning device.

    Check out their website and the BBC documentation!
    http://www.realtimerace.com/how-it-works

    Though it seems pretty much alpha still, it looks quite promising.

    However, I rather would want them to sell their captured tracks to experienced racing game developers. I guess they are not experienced enough to produce a game with good physics and immersion like the GTR-series, Rfactor or Iracing.

    game demo (beta)
    http://www.realtimerace.com/forum/suppo ... omment-215

    regards
    egoexpress, Mar 6, 2010
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    A great concept and it still needs a lot of work. Microsoft had some development on a program that takes photos of any object and create a very accurate 3D model.

    I agree with you ego, people taking pictures shouldn't be making a racing sim game :)
    Frakk, Mar 7, 2010
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    I hope the Nordschleife will be captuered that way (with laser and pics) soon.
    The currently virtualized tracks arent capable of reproducing the hefty track altitude differences and road surface details that well.
    So far the Nordschleife tracks are too planar, and miss the most surface irregularities on the road, which make this track so dangerous and demanding.

    Watch the videos to see why the Nordschleife is virtually a rollercoster ride :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2JwiKvMWgI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGE5eVufG3Y
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIKYMgfhYQI

    @Ringo
    Are the Iracing guys taking pictures of the road itself as well, or just pics of the enviroment?
    egoexpress, Mar 7, 2010
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    Dont know that, i just know whats written in the article ...
    Ringorumble, Mar 7, 2010
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