3 screen sim

[vandale]

Hi all, anybody done a 3 screen sim racer, something like iracing with 3 24inch HD panels, setup with correct dimensions for a 180 degree viewing angle etc?

Over the past few months I have scratched together a PC with dual 9800gtx cards and 3 24inch Dell panels. Should be good enough for DX10 racers. Plan is to make a custom mount and place them on a 50 inch Daytona delux cab less the 50 inch screen.

Something like

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Gene

[SailorSat]

Hm... Don't know if that counts, but I did a 3-screen Buggy Boy once ^^

[BadMouth]

Sounds good to me.  Some of the emulators can even be set up to work with it, including those that run Daytona and Daytona 2.

[Howard_Casto]

Outrun 2006 will also do three screens.  Your desktop has to be setup to where all three are individual monitors though. 

[Generic Eric]

Hi all, anybody done a 3 screen sim racer, something like iracing with 3 24inch HD panels, setup with correct dimensions for a 180 degree viewing angle etc?

r-pod mark 2.5

At first blush this seems a great idea. OTOH, won't Occulus Rift negate all of this?

[Howard_Casto]

Not if you actually want to be able to see your buttons, shifter, and wheel.  OR is pointless until they figure out how to integrate it with augmented reality.  Also, I don't see the retail version being released anytime soon.  News about the device has pretty much fallen off since the facebook acquisition. 

[vandale]

Hm... Don't know if that counts, but I did a 3-screen Buggy Boy once ^^

So cool, but funny at the same time.

[Xiaou2]

 Not sure whats funny about it?

 TX-1  is another great racing classic that works great on 3 monitors.    Its superior in gameplay to Pole Position... 
and although the sounds are not as nice as Pole Position, it does have 4 speaker surround sound.

 There are other 3 screen games racers, as well as shooters.

 Theres a 2 screen Darius,  as well as a 3 screen Darius,  Ninja Warriors,  Race Drivin Panorama (playable?),   Ferrari F355 Challenge ,   X-Men 6-Player version,  and some Nintendo -vs- Arcade games.. like Punchout (Vertical Orientation)

 There also were some Dual Monitor games that used a Half Silvered mirror - So that the graphics were in Stereoscopic 3D.

[ant2]

I built mine a few years back, I havn't got many videos showing it mind.

This is a small clip of the dolphin emulator running outrun on my cabinet. -

I have another video but it was recorded on a digital camera with video mode, so the aspect ratio looks real weird (squashed) and I had the monitors originally pointed in quite far and i found them better stretched out further