The BBC posted an article about iOpener, an interactive media company, which has patented a way of sucking in real-time GPS data from racing events and pumping it out to compatible games consoles and PCs.
By using an enhanced type of GPS, called Differential GPS iOpenerhave created a product which can pinpoint the position of a real Formula One car within 3cms and send that information to a console within 5 secs.
“It’s clear that the next trend in gaming is going to be bringing real objects into the virtual world; playing not against other gamers but people doing the real thing,” Founder of iOpener, Andy Lurling, told the BBC. “You can compete against the best of the best.”
More info can be found here, here and here.
This opens up alot of potential, not only for racing, but also for bringing virtual objects into the real world.
