Powered by an AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card, Chad Smith’s five-screen racing simulator looks like it provides almost the same thrills as the military’s simulators, without requiring the military’s budget.
Its creators claim that Simroid, a next-generation dental patient simulator, has been developed to provide more emotional feedback to dentists in training. But I see the truth here; it’s just another way robots are preparing us for their eventual takeover.
Your typical fake cockpit simulator has limited manoeuvrability, but this high-speed robot arm can move in multiple axis at the same time, accurately recreating the feeling of flying including the extreme g-forces that come with it.
Since you never actually leave your living room, the OVO-4 home flight simulator lets you skip all the unpleasantness of modern air travel, while still enjoying the mind numbing boredom of being inside a commercial aircraft for hours at a time.
There’s a new CncSimulator in the works, and by the looks of this preview video, it’s a pretty impressive piece of software for hobbyists, or anyone who’s ever laid hands on a CNC milling machine or taken shop class.
When I was a young nerd, I dreamed about having an entire room dedicated to flight simulation games, in which I could play Falcon – which was all the rage back then – and Larry Holland’s Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and X-Wing.
As a general rule, I’ve always avoided racing games like the plague. But that all changed when the guys from Pagnian Imports sent us one of their Next Level Racing simulators to review.
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In a massive warehouse in Higashifuji, Japan, a striking white pod, 17m in diameter, is perched atop a mess of machinery. It’s the Lexus driving simulator, the most advanced of its kind, and they’re finally showing it in action.
