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. The company was Founded in 2003 by Christopher Leigh and Stuart Scott-Goldstone. In 2008, Real Time Race worked with Malaysian owned

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to test a video capture vehicle. It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lasers for

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, an Inertial navigation system and 5 high definition cameras.

Technology

iFlex

In 2009, Dr Roderick Kennedy and Christopher Leigh invented a Free viewpoint television technology called iFlex which used the captured data from a moving platform. The optical graphics engine, based on image-based modeling and rendering produces an immersive video environment. This is used, amongst other applications, in race car simulation.

vFit

Real Time Race also claims to have augmented iFlex with live real world objects instead of

Computer-Generated Imagery Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, and visual effects in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos. The images may ...

. vFit is the artificial intelligence system allowing realistic physics and collision interaction between the real and virtual objects.

Development

Real Time Race stated its intention to use the technology for interactive television motor racing in 2010. In a televised interview for BBC

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Mark Wilkin, Formula One editor of the BBC, commented that viewers wanted something more sophisticated than CGI video games. He said he will be interested to see how the system would handle collisions.

References

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External links

Real Time Race website.

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