So I bought myself a steering wheel, pedals, and a cheap f1 racing cockpit so I could drink lots of wine on thanksgiving and play f1 on Xbox series x all weekend. I gotta say it’s pretty dang fun and I can see why people get hooked and end up spending thousands of dollars on a sim racing setup. Anyone here ever try it?
OT: Sim racing
- Thread starter ouchmyknee
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This is cool to see someone on here post this. I am an iRacing Alpha tester (iRacing.com is considered to be the premier Motorsport simulation, especially NASCAR). During last year’s NASCAR season, Fox Sports wanted extra live TV content and put on a virtual NASCAR series on Wednesday nights on FS1 featuring the real NASCAR drivers at the upcoming tracks. I was Ryan Newman’s Crew Chief/spotter for it.
I got into it myself this year. Bought a direct drive wheel base, triple monitors, DIY wood cockpit, and now working on designing and 3D printing my own wheels.
I'm more of a casual player though. Mostly just drifting and cruising the more open tracks in Assetto Corsa on PC.
I'm more of a casual player though. Mostly just drifting and cruising the more open tracks in Assetto Corsa on PC.
Now get an Occulus Quest 2.. Meta Quest 2.. and get, oh, i dunno... a decent PC and steam account the games Asseto Corsa and Dirt Rally 2 and let the PC drive the game into your headset.. you'll be sitting so it should be fine with a cable.
Now.. I don't have the whole driver setup.. and, quite frankly, I suck at it anyway.. but I can see the value. I do play a WWI and WWII VR flying game from time to time and dig those. I am always off-roading.. in the racing games (meaning, cannot stay on the road or course).
UPDATE: just read that Microsoft announced in October coming support for Quest2 and Xbox cloud gaming.. I do recommend a wired connection, if possible.
and, oh man, I see some real aficionados have answered already.. iRacing, eh? Hmmmm
It’s amazing what watching that dang Netflix f1 show during lockdown got me into. I’ma big fan now after having never watched a single race my entire life.
