Russell,

Is this a normal looking black chair with a pedestal coming from the bottom
and a pair of pneumatic pistons underneath? If so, I think I may have used
one at a PC-based simulator demo (Jane's F-15 combat simulator) at an
airshow. It was pretty lame, as far as I was concerned and would rather
have been sitting still while I tried to get the hang of the sim. For one
thing, there was nothing around me to deceive me into "feeling" as though I
was accelerating. It just felt exactly as you would think, like I was
tilting. Perhaps if you set it up in a dark room with the image projected
onto the whole wall in front of you, then the somatographic illusion might
work. The motion was also somewhat jerky and IIRC, it make audible air
releasing noises as it moved.

Sean

At 09:57 PM 10/14/00 +0100, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
>To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 8:59 AM
>Subject: [OT]: Comment sought on RocknRide motion simulator
>
>
> > A wee bit off topic but hopefully the areas of interest will overlap
>enough
> > for some....
> >
> > For many years (20+ ???) I have had an interest in the possibility of
> > building a motion simulator but it has been one of those things that never
> > quite happened.
> > I am not a great games player but would love a decent rally driving
> > simulator which allowed one to "suspend disbelief" in that environment.
> >
> > I now have an opportunity to buy a "RocknRide" motion simulator "used only
> > on weekends for demonstration purposes by a little old lady who owned a
> > computer store" (not quite) for about 1/4 of the new US equivalent price.
> > For those who haven't met them this is a 2 axis (front/back and
>left/right)
> > chair with a swing in each axis of about +/- 26 degrees. Operates on
> > pneumatics with its own small compressor and has RS232 or joystick control
> > Extremely simple but workable and appears robust enough.
> > Offers possibility of interposing a device between eg PC game or whatever
> > and simulator to modify response in various ways.
> >
> > MAY be the only one in the country.
> >
> > Not too much general comment on the web that I have been able to find
> > although what I have found has been generally positive.
> >
> > Has anyone met these?
> > How "good" are they?
> > Any thoughts on reliability or any other aspects ?
> > I'm being slowly enticed by the prospect but some independent comment
>would
> > be of interest.
> >
> > Y'All welcome to play occasionally if I buy it but it's a long way to swim
> > for most of you :-)
> >
> > For what it's worth - specs of apparent acceleration at 26 degrees tilt
> > angle are attached.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >                 Russell McMahon
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > Sim limits
> > Acc 0.44 g        User sees
> > Grav 0.90 g       Apparent gravity
> >
> > Real
> > Res 1.11g         Force on user at 26 degrees resultant angle
> > Acc 0.43g          Acceleration to cause this
> >
> >
> >
> > Performance at full acceleration
> >
> > 0-100 kph 6.47 seconds
> >   89.80 metres
> >   294.63 feet
> >
> > S 1/4 mile 58.80 m/s
> >   211.66 kph
> >   132.29 mph
> >   13.69 seconds
> >
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