VR Transforms Sim Racing...So Why Does No One Use It?

so virtual reality great for flight Sims Space games and of course pretending you're not alone on Valentine's Day if you catch my drift Christ oh that is actually horrible I've always said that virtual reality is the closest you can get to actually being inside a real life racing car without risking your frail gaming body ego or wallet and there have been times where I've sat in VR and just been in all of the environment I'm in and kind of fooled into believing that I'm not actually in my sweaty Sim chair and that I'm somewhere exotic driving a very fast race car now despite having the overwhelming privilege of getting to race cars in real life there are still some things that I'm never going to be able to do and one of them is the subject of this video we're stepping in our Sim racing time machine and going back to the early' 70s for a race at Riverside International so here we are in the pit Lane you can hear cars rushing bi you might wonder why I'm not part of a starting gr that's because in my my little role play here uh my car had a problem that meant I couldn't get to the Grid in time so watching the cars go down waiting for my turn come on let me go let me go and we're away the Bit Lane and a gift Chase already in front of us there's a mark two having a big moment so manag to avoid that but here we are then at River Side in a Ford GT40 now it's our job to try and Chase down the pack and oh my God every time every time I get into virtual reality I am just amazed by how good it looks look at this look at this I know it's not going to translate exactly for you guys at home but there's a pack of car streaking by there down to the left and I can see them all coming oh already I think that's a Ferrari out Ferrari and a Lola had contact which is good for us they're both faster cars got nearly 30 cars in this race they didn't start in any particular order which does means is going to be a little bit of chaos but no what's life without chaos huh having to do full heing to and this be very careful through this section this very very long right hand it goes on forever and ever before we can finally get the car straight and we're rewarded with a nice long straight line where this car comes alive Speedo there over to the left hand side look at that climb 140 mph up into fifth gear that's the Top Gear 10 60 MPH and we're going to go flat into this left hand you ready over the little bit gravel there and now try and slow it down use the engine break and down a fourth down a third lead off that brake pedal into this little bow now very tough to get this line right I take a different line for here each up I feel like and we're going to open the back up again drive to the W exit come back over to finish our first lap again flat over this left hander not quite for a little bit a lift through there to get the car settled going to hold fourth gear left foot break over the curb on the inside look at this in front of us gag cars and US bearing down and already I've kind of Forgotten I'm in a I'm in a Sim you know now watch the AI take me firmly out on my immersion here look at that in front they're free wide down there you would think it's a historic race now we've got about 25 minutes of this so we've got a little bit of time to work our way up through the field no big rush I'm going to try and drive the cars as they would be driven so carefully and not banging un limit at 7 half th000 RPM every shift pass one of the uh Porsches I think that is there GP La going be watching this video and judging me I don't know every car by sight but oh goes back around the outside oh cuts across the front of me there lot more agile in these Corners here but I've got the grunt as see coming on to the straight pass one car now here we go oh it's fast see lat [Applause] boys this is so good man nice big engine break there sh we Daytona in front of us how cool was this coming on to another lap GT40 chasing Daytona off the corner we go he's a bit slower oh that's very close to the wall Jimmy going to cut across very nice flat through here got to take fifth gear now Roll Off The Brak and all I'm doing so far is talking about the race but I'm just this is for me is what SIM racing should be it's what it is it's getting you as close as possible to the cars and the tracks and the feeling that these circuits giving in real life and that none of us will be able to experience especially here this track is gone doesn't exist anymore here we are all intense and purposes inside a GT40 Mark 1 carving through the field making our way around and you might have noticed already the sun's getting a little bit lower the Shadows getting a little bit longer we've got some nice time acceleration here which means we are going to be driving into the night and you're going to see just how beautiful this game can look game was 10 years old this year and you wouldn't know it do I have enough time to get by here no the B oh my god there another car there I did not see him a who was that I didn't Che my mirrors it was a Daytona D I forgot that thing was an absolute unit in a straight line wow that scared me I thought I was going off you want to go you want to do it you want to do it come on boy get it and we are pass my God that scared the life out of me something that I don't do as much as I should in the Sim is check my mirrors I'm usually used to having a big virtual mirror at the top or some Arrow telling me there's a car next to me I race on single monitor so those things are sort of essential but in VR you're in charge of all of that MTI in front these things are pretty quick not as quick as me though see it [Music] there's no replacement for displacement oh wait there is it's handling I've been full once again now in my Infinite Wisdom I've realized that it is starting to get It's Not Dark Yet but the sun is starting to go down and I've realized that that button to put my headlights on is on my keyboard which I cannot see at the moment so we'll see we'll see how we get on sometimes I just like making these sort of videos where I just get toop throw something cool and gush about it this is the passion that drove me to make I don't know how many videos there is on this channel and take part in various endurance events I'm taking part on the similar event using this car at this circuit this weekend and I genuinely can't wait haven't decided I'm going to do in VR or not though probably not no idea what that time as we're doing don't really care to be honest sometimes it's the journey not the destination oh saying that we're about to have a big crash he first GE there just to rotate the car shift lock it it kind of worked actually I never shift locked to GT40 before why is it going to be a drag race now getting the toe a this is so cool this is so [Music] cool there C more RPM just to get the run on the straight I don't think you guys know how much I love this car it's by far and way my favorite car ever made and to drive Side by SL one and like Chase one down the straight hit a sound of both of them is uh very good very good indeed s of a lot of cars to get through here making good progress through the field though oh look at how much lighter that car is he can just send it into the corner I can't do that 900 kilos is light but those things are you know we're talking 700 kilos this is heavy by that standard imagine calling a 900 kilo car heavy even now we can go around the outside nothing I can do luckily though there's a big no skill section coming up that I'm very good at so we're going to just utilize that and say goodbye see it [Music] bro look at this look at the clouds in the sky the range of awesome amazing cars in this race the sound of this V8 just chiming away behind me I remember when I started getting into racing games when I was younger the first game I ever played properly was F-1 197 I wish I could have shown that 7ear old kid just what was coming in the future this is what you're seeing right now is pretty much all mods pretty much all mods User submitted content you know it's just it blows me away it really does you might be noticing now it's starting to get oh God little bit orange a little bit purple Sun's starting to go down I've got to try and find my headlights fairly soon I think I got them think they're on are they on maybe yeah I got them okay good very important to get that down early I'm going to be in trouble when the race starts oh my God that's getting early oh my god look how pretty this looks you know what I'm going to shut up for the rest of this lap and we're just going to look at this and appreciate how good this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] looks [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now [Music] it's just beautiful it really is it's so good there's no game out there that immerses me like a set of Cora does even now 10 years after it's released you know it's almost unrecognizable it really is I can see the cars in front that's always worth a couple attempts when you're chasing knowing the cars in front are getting closer God I love this straight so much in this car the sound of this thing sometimes with Sim racing I find that I forget the bit that I enjoy I get a bit too hung up on the competitive stuff I get a bit too hung up on things like ey rating and safety rating and I forget that the reason why I started doing this sort of stuff in the first place it's because I lusted after after cars after driving like this and being able to emulate the thing that I couldn't do in real life for a very very very long time and I'm still absolutely honored to say that I can now do real life drive drive cars I've been some insane cars in the last couple of years look at that I will never unfortunately get to race a GT40 at Riverside I'll never get to race a GT40 but here this is the next best thing and you know what it's not half bad what the turn in Star to get a bit hard to see the turn in though my headset starting to get a little bit fogged up as I'm just orgasming over fake clouds man I wish I had more to say um it's quite often that I'm well that's a lie it's not often that I'm left speechless especially when it comes to sim racing I've always got an opinion every I whether you want to hear it or not but for someone like myself who just has a this unrelenting love for racing and cars and the atmosphere around it and the people the drivers and the teams and all that this is just perfection what an amazing combo all the mot forther way will be down below in the description for you guys to download and give a try for yourself I thoroughly thoroughly recommend it got a lap and a half left here at Riverside can we catch the cars in front I don't know there's one car that we might get him right come on G40 go like C where's the turn no idea here now do we got a retiree right the end of the race don't know that's going to benefit us or not but we are closing right coming on now to our last lap is he in [Music] reach just Fring it between the curbs we're closing in big sends on the last lap [Music] now oh it's an old Jag this things are fast in a straight line too so it's going to be hard to pass down the straight big downshifts there not very friendly to the engine but who cares come on we're so close here we are here's our chance we're close we're close come on let get oh that's it come on come on G40 oh it's not quite got the the run over the [Applause] ja oh it's the car off big move it's not going to be enough I don't think no not going to quite catch him oh I went wi right at the end there what a race though finishing p12 holy hell I really wish it would give us the inlp just a save of that oh mate one of the downsides here though to uh to VR you get hot and sweaty but it's worth it I've said it many times I'm just a huge INF fusi first and foremost and getting to sit in that car orbe it virtually and feel like I'm chasing down cars at a circuit that no longer exists to me it's why I got into the Hobby and it's why I can see myself doing this in many years to come but guys hope you enjoyed the video if you did hit the like button subscribe do all that good stuff as I said before all the links down below for mods are in the description take care awesome day see you for the next one

Channel: Jimmy Broadbent

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Length: 16min 42sec (1002 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 11 2024