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Title: 3 screen sim
Post by: vandale on August 04, 2014, 07:10:55 am: 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri19PqJ3qU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri19PqJ3qU)

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Gene
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: SailorSat on August 04, 2014, 10:49:09 am: Hm... Don't know if that counts, but I did a 3-screen Buggy Boy once ^^

(http://images.arianchen.de/buggyboy.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: BadMouth on August 04, 2014, 11:28:03 am: 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.
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 04, 2014, 12:03:26 pm: Outrun 2006 will also do three screens. Your desktop has to be setup to where all three are individual monitors though.
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: Generic Eric on August 04, 2014, 12:08:04 pm: Quote from: vandale on August 04, 2014, 07:10:55 am
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?
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 04, 2014, 12:17:54 pm: 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.
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: vandale on August 05, 2014, 05:24:23 am: Quote from: SailorSat on August 04, 2014, 10:49:09 am
Hm... Don't know if that counts, but I did a 3-screen Buggy Boy once ^^

(http://images.arianchen.de/buggyboy.jpg)

So cool, but funny at the same time.
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: Xiaou2 on August 05, 2014, 03:53:01 pm: 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.
Title: Re: 3 screen sim
Post by: ant2 on August 05, 2014, 04:44:40 pm: 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. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhFBpbDTg4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmhFBpbDTg4)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tnf7lEcSnk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tnf7lEcSnk)