Simracing, usually more of the arcade type can be found on business expo type things and when I was supposed to help a colleague, I noticed a Force Dynamics 301 running LFS BF1 Blackwood. It had a 3 screen setup like this
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While it was mighty odd and the motion sim really only adds some 'occasion', certainly not realism, I was of course the fastest by miles! The laptime? Horrid.. 1:13! With those three screens its weird how your eyes sort of are used to looking at ONE of them, so I either looked ahead, or to the side. Often I wanted to look in the middle somewhere but there was the black surroundings of the monitors.
So when looking at the center view, its simracing on a single screen with about a 25 degree FOV, which is mighty odd.. While the handling was somewhat like I recall LFS to be, and amplified by cold tires probably, it was pretty 'auto rotate / spin' at low speeds. Since LFS is used somewhat often on expos, I wonder if it might be a good idea for the devs to turn tire heating etc off.. Though perhaps it even was off and I just really couldn't feel it.
And what did I win? Tickets to a football game.. I despise football.. But my colleagues might not.
There was also a ps3 somewhere running some arcade F1 game with auto brakes and auto steering and 'anti-simracing' enabled, which made no sense at all and I came 2 tenths short of winning a (pretty poor) laptop! Doh!
While it was mighty odd and the motion sim really only adds some 'occasion', certainly not realism, I was of course the fastest by miles! The laptime? Horrid.. 1:13! With those three screens its weird how your eyes sort of are used to looking at ONE of them, so I either looked ahead, or to the side. Often I wanted to look in the middle somewhere but there was the black surroundings of the monitors.
So when looking at the center view, its simracing on a single screen with about a 25 degree FOV, which is mighty odd.. While the handling was somewhat like I recall LFS to be, and amplified by cold tires probably, it was pretty 'auto rotate / spin' at low speeds. Since LFS is used somewhat often on expos, I wonder if it might be a good idea for the devs to turn tire heating etc off.. Though perhaps it even was off and I just really couldn't feel it.
And what did I win? Tickets to a football game.. I despise football.. But my colleagues might not.
There was also a ps3 somewhere running some arcade F1 game with auto brakes and auto steering and 'anti-simracing' enabled, which made no sense at all and I came 2 tenths short of winning a (pretty poor) laptop! Doh!
Too bad, football sucks indeed 
But at least you got to try out that setup.
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nothing really, as we don't watch it, dont' understand it, wonder why you need all that padding and helmets to play a type of rugby game. 