{"id":16763,"date":"2015-08-30T09:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/racing-real-car-in-virtual-reality-castrol-edge-video-games-tech"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:44:53","slug":"racing-real-car-in-virtual-reality-castrol-edge-video-games-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/racing-real-car-in-virtual-reality-castrol-edge-video-games-tech","title":{"rendered":"Racing Real Car in Virtual Reality \u2014 Castrol Edge &amp; Video Games tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dD8oJdq0TiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Castrol Edge &amp; Video Games technologies: Racing a Real Car in Virtual Reality.<\/p>\n<p>Castrol EDGE has premiered its latest Titanium Trial driving challenge, featuring Formula Drift professional Matt Powers driving his Roush Stage 3 Mustang whilst wearing a state-of-the-art Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 headset: blind to the real world around him, but fully-immersed in a rapidly changing 3D virtual world.<\/p>\n<p>In a world first, Castrol EDGE fused video games technology and a real world driving experience, using a modified car and virtual reality technology, so a computergenerated world responded to the driver\u2019s and car\u2019s movements in real time.<\/p>\n<p>The video game-like experience featured a mind-blowing landscape of falling boulders, crumbling track, tunnels, sheer cliff drops and even a cameo virtual appearance from another racing icon \u2014 with the landscape\u2019s shifts reacting to Matt Powers\u2019 every driving move.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge was part of Castrol EDGE\u2019s Titanium Trials, a series of high-powered challenges that bring man and machine together to push the boundaries of performance enabled by the strength of Castrol EDGE boosted with fluid Titanium technology \u2013 Castrol\u2019s most technologically advanced and strongest oil.<\/p>\n<p>After taking on the VIRTUAL DRIFT Trial, Matt Powers said: \u201cVirtual Drift was exhilarating and challenging like nothing I\u2019ve ever done before. It\u2019s been awesome not only being involved and testing this next generation of gaming technology but the possibilities this opens up for motor sport in general are mind blowing. I had to rely on my instincts and the car to perform, with the strength of Castrol EDGE in the engine to give me the reassurance that the car would reach its maximum performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/racing-real-car-in-virtual-reality-castrol-edge-video-games-tech\">Continue reading \u201cRacing Real Car in Virtual Reality \u2014 Castrol Edge &amp; Video Games tech\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castrol Edge &amp; Video Games technologies: Racing a Real Car in Virtual Reality. Castrol EDGE has premiered its latest Titanium Trial driving challenge, featuring Formula Drift professional Matt Powers driving his Roush Stage 3 Mustang whilst wearing a state-of-the-art Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 headset: blind to the real world around him, but fully-immersed in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1491,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-transportation","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64348,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16763\/revisions\/64348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}