Breaking into the world of auto racing is easy. Step 1: Buy an expensive car. Step 2: Learn how to drive it without crashing. If you’re stuck at step 1, and things aren’t looking great for step 2 ...

In the Cyberneum at the Tübingen-based Max Planck Campus, people are transported into virtual worlds in order to investigate how our brain processes impressions. A motion simulator - a cable robot - ...

Professor Bülthoff, there are three motion simulators in the Cyberneum. What is the nature of the general interest in this research? We want to better understand how people’s senses interact when they ...

Computer simulations designed to teach people how to operate a vehicle can reproduce a reasonable facsimile of real-world conditions, but they lack one key ingredient: a realisic sense of motion. That ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Yaw VR launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this week for its Yaw2 home motion simulation seat, and it already secured nearly ten times its backing goal ...

Atomic Motion Systems have announced their intentions to add HMD support (starting with the Oculus Rift) to their motion simulator platforms to create the ultimate in motion feedback. One of the many ...

According to Dynisma CEO Ashley Warne, the global automotive industry spends around $9.7 billion every year on prototype builds that accumulate more than half a million miles in the development and ...

The new Aston Martin F1 Motion Simulator is available as a limited run product, coinciding with Fernando Alonso’s recent 400th F1 race in Mexico City. The racing sim is built by Memento Exclusives ...

[DERIY] set out to create a two degrees of freedom motion simulator for driving simulation. After four months, he’s completed this impressive simulator for about $400. The simulator receives driving ...

Simulators for driving and ones for flying provide a reasonably convincing impersonation of movement through 3D space while sitting in a seat that only moves up and down and side-to-side. But the ...

Every NASA astronaut who ever rode aboard the space shuttle, more than 350 of them, first sat in its full-motion simulator. And even though the simulator was firmly on the ground, anchored inside ...