I Bought The CHEAPEST Motion Sim On AMAZON! Will It Be Any Good!?

so I bought the cheapest motion simulator I can find on Amazon and really on the whole of the Internet I could not find a cheaper motion simulator that was a full-fledged actual motion simulator there's things that move your seed around and and little stuff like that but as far as a full-on motion simulator goes this is by far the cheapest option and to be honest I didn't realize that these existed I did not know that you can get a motion simulator for this much money I thought a motion simulator it was ten grand I thought maybe you could be iy 1 4 3 4 5 grams they'd have to tinker with it you have to really be into that stuff to make it work right I did not know that you could get a full on motion simulator first sub tuber and I mean like what so obviously there's some skepticism you know sub 2 grand vs. 10 15 20 $100,000 is it gonna work right is it gonna be any bit decent is it gonna be a complete waste of money and a bedroom ornament who knows you know but to me I figured hey man it's worth the risk if this thing actually does turn out to be solid and I have a 4 on motion simulator for under $2,000 like I mean I'm gonna be stoked so I figure there's probably a bunch of you in that predicament as well you might have seen this for sale or you might just now be seeing that they offer these I'm wondering if it's worth it so I took the plunge and we're gonna find out together so this is it let me give you guys a tour of it and then I'll show you how it works we'll play some games and see what you think so this is a DOF reality in it this is not at all sponsor I paid full price for this on so this is a three DOF machine there's mainly three DOF and 6 DOF so that do F stands for dimensions of freedom which is basically just what kind of dimensions it can move in it sounds kind of confusing 3 is really ideal for racing games so what the three are is pitch front to back roll left and right and then y'all or attraction loss which is basically the swinging of the back end which is really good for video games when the car is sliding if you're drifting if you're road racing and the car kicks out you have that motion to feel that the car is getting sideways and corrected so how does it work well you've got these two motors in the front here you can see they're attached with these rod ends here so these push the frame up or down if this one goes up and that one goes down gonna go with this one goes down and that one goes up gonna go right they both go down fronts gonna go down they both go up fronts gonna come up and how all that works is this you joint set up here so as you can see there's a huge only there and that allows it to pitch forward and left and right and basically everything is riding on that in the front two motors so you've got the seat attached here as you go forward you can see that's where the motors attack and pick up the frame here as you go further forward you can see the pedals so the pedals are floating in the air they are also hung and attached to this same frame that is being moved by the motors as well as going up to the shifter and in my case handbrake and then the steering wheel assembly so all of this stuff is on the frame that moved so everything that you're touching is moving with you and with the frame which may sound obvious but there's a lot of products out there that are two DOF or whatever and they're basically seat movers you know all this stuff stays stationary and your seat moves around a little bit this is a full-fledged motion simulator and then the last motor we have is the yaw traction loss motor so it's got that arm coming out it's got this rod going to this frame and then it is attached to our main frame here it's got these roller wheels that roll along this plate it's basically that motor when it moves left or right moves the whole back to the frame left or right and again that simulates tractional on tour in an airplane it would be y'all you know if you were to kick the rudder but for my purposes racing games traction loss car sliding sideways can also use it in the game to simulate the the g-forces of going around a turn but you're using the pitch to that as well we'll get into that when we're playing the games but yeah so I ordered this when they sent me their tracking email they sent me this software simracing studio so this software controls the simulator so we're in test right now so we can test we can do pitch so that's gonna be our front to back that back out then we have our roll here so that is our web store right action and then we have y'all which again is our traction loss motor in the back back there you know imagine you're drifting to the left and then you transition drifting to the right transition drifting to the left etc and then there's also several combinations of these that you know experience different effects a lateral G sway it's kind of a combination of motions that get you that that feedback basically and then surge accel Road heaves so this would be the road bouncing up and down and then traction loss which is basically just cereal there's a little graphic right there to kind of explain the dimensions of freedom so one of the things I was really impressed with about this set up I figured it was gonna be a bit of a struggle to get everything to work correctly and drive and and work in I was gonna have to tinker with it for a day or two and get to you and play the game remotely decently that was wrong open this up will open up a game so let's do a set of course--i click join bone game I said oh Corsa Oh everything just moved no I mean because of AC so it's cool while this is we can change our settings and then save them per a specific car so I use this a lot more with eye racing and some of the slower cars you know aren't gonna have as much motion because I don't have as much g-force or is he gonna like an f1 car and it has so much g-force that it's trying to communicate through the motion stem that I mean it's about to swing you head of the seat so sometimes like a general setting doesn't work for every car and it's really cool to be able to save the settings for a specific car but we'll get into that one get an eye racing this is a set of course so for this game I have the pretty much all the motion but the traction wants turn down quite a bit just because there's just not a lot like coming from the game it's not like very clean motion that the game gives like I racing you can crank it up to 11 and it's still clean motion but this game oh man it's a little different so you don't get to feel the road texture as much as you do and I racing and stuff but you do get that traction loss which is like the best part because it really makes it feel like you're drifting [Music] it's been a couple times I forgot to turn the motion to them on I start playing again and I'm like was so weird oh we're gonna at all this one gets hairy fourth gear I forgot to have a ham break now I just put the handbrake on recently yeah I need to try turning the accel and decel back up a little bit I think when I do it just gets kind of I don't know uncomfortable it works fine but it's just like I don't know the main motion I'm trying to feel is the back sliding around but when I do have that tilt you can really feel when you left foot break you can feel the front suspension like whoa tup on you [Music] they can kind of feel the bumps there but the route the road texture just doesn't get communicated Wow and that's a game thing not a sin thing you'll see with iRacing how much the road texture gets communicated it's the same with like the steering the force feedback Oh a little line there [Music] oh we're gonna hit the wall oh I thought I pulled out of it I didn't list there's someone on here to tandem with but you get the idea see what it's doing but I mean with VR and everything it feels real like thank you you know obviously you shouldn't feel I was gonna say you feel that but it just feels so cool and it just makes the game so much more fun and also if you saw my last sim video giving us a tour of my fanta tech stuff and whatever I'm very critical if I said of course I would for speed better I haven't messed around with it much but I haven't been able to make the motion work for a lift for speed it's supposed to but I haven't been able to so I've been playing more assetto corsa and these cars are the ABC Ossie drift Co cars and this is I believe in a DC track and they are so good they they make the game a lot better than any of the other cars I've played and I actually really enjoy playing it now because these cars actually feel right the steering feels right the grip feels right that was my biggest problem with the set of courses like the grip and the steering the steering just always felt so known felt like just nothing was happening in the steering wheel if you would get no feedback at all as these cars steering feels right itself steer feels right the grip feels right when you get on throttle they go when you need brake they slow down and scrub speed like that [Music] [Music] we're going in oh oh oh through the wall through the wall into the forest taking a cruise don't go over the edge alright that's set oh Corsa let's do some erasing the only problem I've had with this thing so far is that the software when I go from game to game and sometimes just mainly yeah when I go from game to game we'll just turn off and I'll get in and I'll get set up and I'll go to go I don't have any motion I just all I have to do is click the app to turn on but yeah so anyway we're in the Porsche gt3 911 gt3 Cup car this is a good middle ground car it's not super crazy but it is you know a fast car it's not a Miata or something [Music] and I have the motion turned down quite a bit because I've been doing a lot of races with this and but the motion turned all the way up it's I mean it's exhausting at times to try to do you know 30 laps 30 minutes then oh man we are not off to a good start I mean during this track in a while it's a fun one though see attraction loss there and the back kicked out alright we'll do a quick flying laughing this thing that the fire has warmed up [Music] Oh almost blew it [Applause] [Music] go on away from myself [Applause] now that wasn't a particularly clean lap all right three seconds behind my fastest lap but [Music] [Applause] [Music] got way too squirrelly I'm trying to drive a little more aggressive than I normally would I don't normally Drive smooth and smooth is fast but you give you a better idea of emotion if I'm a little more on the ragged edge [Music] come on turn ins Alex takes me a few laps to get to nail we're way way off this one sliding around a little bit [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I normally don't go i their swear [Music] oh alright so that is I already think that's like a like I said look a pretty median level it's a pretty quick car not a crazy car and you know mid-range on the motion setting so now we're gonna go to an f1 car go a little higher on the motion settings and you see this make you really do because it gets a wild Wow you'll see alright f1 car Road Oh Anna the reason for road Oh Anna's the formula or no 2.0 series which is like the most basic of open-wheel Epis tile cars do you want to call him that I did a lot of races here in that and I tried it in the f1 car for the first son and I was like mind blown by all this thing is how much power and grip it has and like it feels unreal I'm doing a light warm-up lap but it feels unreal that you could go through this track this fast and I looked it up and there has been an f1 car rode Oh Anna my time fastest on 103 9 I haven't spent that much time on it but the time in the actual f1 car in real life was like a 59 so it's just crazy you'll see what I mean well yeah the f1 car in the motion scent is absolutely insane because it feels insane to try to drive the f1 car in this game period but trying to drive it when you're getting thrown around like we get thrown around while [Music] oh-oh-oh something happen [Music] oh man this tracks hard but these like anything like this fast because your turning points are mostly before you can see them oh don't wreck it don't wreck it all right we're good [Music] there's like no point in going down the first day because he cannot stab it [Music] yeah it's a really hard track in these cars it's pretty out late you can break into this one still gonna break the lot later than that [Music] that phones at the top of the hill they're going almost 170 through there [Music] [Music] and that's my turn in there [Music] [Music] I could've waited way longer for that [Music] like this is as close as I'm gonna get as a normal guy to driving an f1 car you know but it just feels absurd [Music] [Music] we're on a good lap I was like the hardest part of the shock really and this one which we blew it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh No [Music] three-sixty man that was a good lap I'll to show you guys what it's like to rack I almost don't want to because it hurts and you'll see [Music] and I wasn't that bad sometimes it's really rough oh all right oh that is the f1 car every winner wild and again that's still not turned all the way up I still know this and turn down a bit especially on the reaction time but it's just absurd it just feels it feels like oh it says nothing compared you're driving a real on pulling 4 G's but it again it feel like it's as close to the limit as I can get to driving a car of that level and doing this wheel the wheel off so fun ok let's do something a little different alright so now we're doing the stadium super trucks these are kind of than not super cool versions and we're on like a rallycross track there's more fun like straight up dirt tracks I haven't tried yet I have to get to the next licensed class to do that oh man I haven't given these things that many times now on bud [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh I might hit the wall [Applause] oh we missed a jump we just missed it [Applause] [Music] I'm not super experienced of these shots yet [Applause] so we're gonna go I hope we're good for good for good [Music] left foot braking is not or qualities and that is singing super trucks see yeah that's how it works I'm really happy with it to be honest I mean I really couldn't have expected more for it based on its its size in its price point you know this thing fits in a pretty small area my old sim rave made out of wood fit and pretty much the same area I moved that my desk over a little bit oh geez but really about the same very similar footprint this does not take up much more space than that did and so again I couldn't be happier with it there are a couple quirks like the one thing that kind of pulls you out of the motion is you can kind of hear when the motors like hit sometimes like when the when a rear y'all like like hits the limit basically hits the end you hear like a clunk I think if I were to get some better headphones and have you know really good noise cancelling headphones it would it would immerse me that much more because it would take that kind of sound away that I hear that reminds me that I'm in a motion Simon I'm not in the car but I mean it is sometimes easy to forget that you're not in a real car with this thing it is pretty wild it's pretty well so there's a couple things I want to do I'm gonna do I want to do a send button box that I'll mount you know right around here to kind of act as a keyboard because I don't need that many buttons on the keyboard but there are some games where I can't use the wheel buttons I need kind of an external button source and it'd be nice to have the buttons it's a pretty cool little pad it's a carbon fiber it has like Carl Wilkens switches so it'll look at home it'll look neat but that'll be good for just certain things that I have to do and then I got this little scroll wheel Mouse so instead of having to move a mouse on a pad it's just a little ball and then a clicker which will be really handy for a lot of games where you have to use a mouse to click stuff right now I have to you know get up get out have the VR on over there go press escape come back get back in so this should allow me to go you navigate through everything without having to get up and in and out so many times so that's kind of the plan I want to mount this kind of like somewhere right around here just maybe make a plate and out of there and then that way again I can I can control everything from the seat what you would just make life a little easier sometimes you have to get up two or three times just to get into play once all righty final thoughts on the old motion rig so I'm super happy with this thing it really wasn't wet down in any way I was worried might not perform as good as it seemed like it would with the way it performs might not be as drastic and as fun and add as much as I thought it would and you know definitely excelled in all those places it is really fun it's not like way crazier than I thought it would be but it adds so much to the game I mean it adds so much to playing whether it's drifting whether it's road racing whether it's rallycross any of those things it just totally adds so much to it and to me you know not everyone sees the value in some stuff and I understand that but the way I see it is man we spend so much money our real cars I spend so much money on my real cars on the cars themselves and then on maintaining them and then especially on operating them you know I mean it is so much money to operate really any formula race car in a rogue race car you know especially wheel the wheel stuff drifting you know for me at to out-of-state drift events to compete and willing to start early on with my LS Miata which is a pretty affordable car to run cover the cost of the motion sim you know I can do thousands of laps on here and road racing and rally you know and again this will never replace a real car it never will I mean and so for so many reasons you know real car real friends people going places to traveling out you know it'll never replace that and my goal has never been for my sim to replace driving in real life but it is a good way to offset it when there's not events you know I bought a 206 car to go to wheel-to-wheel racing and in the 810 months I've had it I've only done one race because all the races following the same weekends is my major out-of-state drift event and obviously I can't control when the events are but I can't control when I want to go racing on the sim I can get done in the shop at nine o'clock I can come in here I can hop on a race that good take shower go to bed and that's what's so cool about it you know you can play it any time and there's no prep there's no getting ready oiling up hooking up the trailer going now tires is lying the car down boldly you know there's none of that is turn it on and go and you know to me that's where I see so much value in it for fun and you know as a learning tool it's a great learning tool yeah so again that's all gonna be personal preference whether or not you see the value in it but as far as this particular motion rate goes for the money from what I've seen I definitely think it's a good buy again time will tell you know maybe maybe I'll preach the motor in a week or two maybe it'll last ten years we don't know that yet but it does perform it definitely as good as I expected so I guess with that I'll leave you to your vices and let you decide for yourself if you want to take the plunge or not but otherwise if you guys have any questions let me know and yeah that's about it thanks for watching thanks for subscribing goodbye [Music] [Music]

Channel: Taylor Ray

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Rating: 4.9323578 out of 5

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Length: 26min 58sec (1618 seconds)

Published: Mon May 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/thisusernamegoneshit]

if you didn't hear about DOF Reality H3 that's mean you don't know about Sim Racing Garage the best sim racing channel on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDzoXs4LoJE

[u/mr_taint]

Wasn't aware of this rig until one of the car YouTubers I follow had a video on it yesterday. His simrig content is pretty scarce, mostly building/racing/drifting content, but I thought some people may be interested to see this. After searching I saw there is some info on this rig, but I'm more intrigued now for sure.

[u/Threefiddie]

i almost got it but DD makes that bitch flex and I figured get the p1x first then get motion down the road for it...but this will work for a lot of people.

[u/latex1974]

This looks great 👍

[u/montxogandia]

How does Eau Rouge feel in that?!