With an innovative
helmet camera view simulating the physical experience of driving at 200mph, the thrilling experience of night racing and authentic degradation of tracks and cars, this is tomorrow's sim for today's adrenaline fueled racer.
Not exact matches
The raw footage originated with Fresno, Calif., firefighter Cory Kalanick, who in mid-2013 rescued an unconscious cat while wearing GoPro's HD Hero3
camera attached to his
helmet, then uploaded the video to YouTube, where it attracted 1.5 million
views in the weeks to follow (although the kitten perished from smoke inhalation).
Porsche Carrera Cup GB driver Dino Zamparelli attached a visor
camera to his
helmet for an onboard hot lap of Oulton Park and it makes for epic
viewing.
It is most unfortunate, then, that these moving and insightful interviews are intercut with footage taken with a
helmet camera on a bicycle ride along a rocky mountain path — these point - of -
view shots are supposed to convey meaning for Kedar, and yet they make whole sections of the film almost unwatchable.
The jerky
camera movements when you're making slight adjustments with the analogue stick in
helmet cam
view is also damn annoying and needs to be smoothed out.
Two
cameras are mounted onboard above the driver's crash
helmet with the first positioned directly behind the crash
helmet looking ahead but not providing any
view of the cockpit and a
camera positioned further to the left of the crash
helmet showing the cockpit and steering wheel, but the common thread between both onboard mounted
cameras is that they both show the high amounts of G - Force being experienced by the driver.
Some racing games such as Need for Speed: Shift 2 have utilised «
helmet cameras» to simulate the driver's head movement when using the interior
view, helpfully looking at the apex whenever you approached a corner.
Under that feature, riders can see the
view behind them due to an ultrawide - angle
camera that is built onto the back of the
helmet.
The
view from the
helmet camera of a bicyclist shows a van side swiping the biker on a South Carolina road.
The rearview
camera seemed to be the most useful feature to me, since motorcycle
helmets limit peripheral vision, and this gives an unobstructed
view.