pageL4 -Sunday Oregonian: "Simulated Racetrack Thrills Are Becoming The Real Thing"
Though not TMSR-specific, this LA Times-Washington Post Service article verifies the growing popularity of the market that TMSR is prospering in by enabling an affordable "eye-widening, gloves-on, tummy-tightening sensory perception of motor sports" wherever there is a PC!
--alan
"We are living in a age of experiences, with everyone wanting to climb mountains, race speedboats, and drive fast cars," says Peter Beale, chairman of Illusion Inc. and a movie producer/director specializing in in production, sound and special camera effects. "What we set out to do is create the sense of driving competitively at fast speeds...In the future we hope to adapt track telemetry so you can enter Indianapolis or Le Mans, and drive against the real experts in real time."
"In Bloomington, Minn., there's the NASCAR Silicon Motor Speedway, a lineup of 12 stock-car mock-ups mated by computers to each other and a 3-D visual presentation of the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The cars rock, they roll, they snarl, they bump and vibrate as you race on a 1.5 mile oval that, at simulated speeds of 200 mph, starts to look like a Fruit Loop." |
