Real Time Race
Encyclopedia
Real Time Race Limited is a company based at Daresbury Laboratory
in North West England
. The company was Founded in 2003 by Christopher Leigh and Stuart Scott-Goldstone.
In 2008, Real Time Race worked with Malaysian owned Lotus Cars
to test a video capture vehicle. It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lasers for Lidar, a Global Positioning System
, an Inertial navigation system
and 5 high definition cameras..
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 is the artificial intelligence
system allowing realistic physics and collision interaction between the real and virtual objects.
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.
Daresbury Laboratory
Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory near Daresbury in Cheshire, England, which began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory by the then Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Harold Wilson...
in North West England
North West England
North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...
. The company was Founded in 2003 by Christopher Leigh and Stuart Scott-Goldstone.
In 2008, Real Time Race worked with Malaysian owned Lotus Cars
Lotus Cars
Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics...
to test a video capture vehicle. It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lasers for Lidar, a Global Positioning System
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites...
, an Inertial navigation system
Inertial navigation system
An inertial navigation system is a navigation aid that uses a computer, motion sensors and rotation sensors to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object without the need for external references...
and 5 high definition cameras..
iFlex
In 2009, Dr Roderick Kennedy and Christopher Leigh invented a Free viewpoint televisionFree viewpoint television
Free viewpoint television is a system for viewing natural video, allowing the user to interactively control the viewpoint and generate new views of a dynamic scene from any 3D position....
technology called iFlex which used the captured data from a moving platform. The optical graphics engine, based on image-based modeling and rendering
Image-Based Modeling And Rendering
In computer graphics and computer vision, image-based modeling and rendering methods rely on a set of two-dimensional images of a scene to generate a three-dimensional model and then render some novel views of this scene....
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 ImageryComputer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in art, video games, films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media...
. vFit is the artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
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 Click Mark Wilkin, Formula OneFormula One
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
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.