We Tried the World’s Most Expensive Racing Simulator

However to steer F1 groups to desert their very own super-expensive, bespoke, in-house simulators—and likewise to steer automobile producers to make use of Dynisma’s tech to hone potential street cars—Warne and his group needed to develop a classy driving simulator that would drastically cut back latency to a degree the place the mind can’t distinguish any lag in any respect.

Utilizing, amongst different developments, super-low-friction struts and motors, Dynisma has pushed its simulator latency down from the standard 50 milliseconds to as little as 3 milliseconds. The impact is that your mind feels issues as they really occur. Such pace additionally signifies that the feeling of street hits, corresponding to kerb strikes, are offered sooner than even 240-Hz projectors are in a position to preserve tempo with.

Bandwidth is the opposite major enchancment for Dynisma. Aeroplane sims don’t require very excessive frequency inputs (except the flight goes very flawed certainly), however automobiles encounter pace bumps, rumble strips, sawtooth kerbs, cat’s eyes, and so forth. This implies the sim must vibrate at very excessive frequencies with ultra-low friction and no recoil to be as reasonable as attainable.

Because of the stiffness of Dynisma’s drive mechanism, the dearth of friction, and even the load of the base of the simulator, its system’s bandwidth goes up to 100 Hz, supposedly 50 % higher than opponents. This factor may even convey oversteer realistically, in actual time, permitting drivers to sense when the again finish of the automobile is about to step out, and never simply after it occurs.

The result’s the definition of innovative. A brand new kind of driving simulator that’s so good, and so reasonable, it’s now the one utilized by Ferrari’s F1 group. However such innovation doesn’t come low-cost. Prices of a Dynisma rig enterprise as much as greater than $12 million in case you test all the things on the spec checklist, together with a wraparound 360-degree 240-fps 4K LED display screen with audio bundle to match. We examined the almost-entry-level $2 million bundle.