Watch the Races with Virtual Reality Headsets, Like You Are the One Driving
Formula E just made a great update for their race cars; they put 360 cameras on the vehicles. And now you can watch the race from a camera which put the top of the cars, and freely look around while they are racing, you can see…
Formula E just made a great update for their race cars; they put 360 cameras on the vehicles. And now you can watch the race from a camera which put the top of the cars, and freely look around while they are racing, you can see the every detail of an accident or critical moments in the race. By the way, not all 360 cams are on the cars, they are some around the pit as well. Virtual Reality is still improving the system, but it is coming strong. The videos are not high quality yet or do not have high-quality sound but still the idea is brilliant, will improve in time that is for sure.
READ ALSO: Why Formula E is Very Important for the Future of All-Electric Cars
Think about the races you might watch soon with this tech, Nascar, Rallies. Perfect right. And we even thought about soccer or American football games, we might see some 360 cameras on the gamers head. Can’t it be cool the watch the game like this. And options are endless, Virtual Reality cams can be used in Olympics, Winter sports, climbing, even diving can be cool to watch. We probably will see many options to watch the events with Virtual Reality headsets. And in time, their capability of recording videos or sound will increase. A perfect experience of event watching is waiting for us.
You can watch the 360 races videos of Formula E from their app. The App is now on Apple App Store.
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Yusuf Demir
Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.
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