r/nextfuckinglevel • u/habichuelacondulce • 4d ago

Immersive RC home racing

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u/captainwigglesyaknow 4d ago

Give me a 5 mile (hell, 1 mile) range and under 5k and you've got my attention. That is so frickin cool!

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u/ballistics211 4d ago

Seems like more than double 5k

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u/Herefornow211 3d ago

It says unlimited range so feel free to drive around in the arctic while chilling at home 

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u/MountainCourage1304 3d ago

What happens if you flip the car?

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u/SniperSnape 2d ago

Your friend follows you in a RC forklift

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u/MountainCourage1304 2d ago

What if the forklift jackknifes?

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u/ultimate_D 4d ago

Would like to know what it costs to get this

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u/falcon_driver 4d ago

3.6 bazillion dollars. That's delivered, set up, and with a scalp massage.

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u/Habaneroe12 4d ago

I had a similar setup that cost me about $1k ten years ago. I did not enjoy it because I was always worried that someone would pull up in a car and take off with it, while I was sitting a quarter mile away.

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u/Reefay 4d ago

That would be kind of funny

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u/StoneFrog81 3d ago

Now you've got air tags so that's not a problem anymore.

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u/AdAppropriate3478 4d ago

I forget what there website is but literally a couple days ago I was looking at this and it's like 14k for their setup. Pretty overpriced imo, there should be guys soon coming out with actual ffb (i cant tell if this does), too, but idk the pricing on that.

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u/DoubleAholeTwice 3d ago

Soon: $140 on aliexpress or temu.

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u/percydaman 4d ago

If you have to ask....

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u/boostlee33 4d ago

While the motion system is very expensive for setup like this, they are surprisingly using very cheap wheel base and wheels. Prob like 10k for motion sim but less than 300 for wheels, wheel base and pedals

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u/0MEGALUL- 4d ago

I think those rigs start around 30k. But they are pretty gimmicky, don’t and can’t simulate real G forces. Especially not a car.

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u/moragdong 3d ago

Car friends haHAA

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u/0MEGALUL- 3d ago

Assuming I have friends OMEGALUL

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u/moragdong 3d ago

Baj not having a friend? Thats impossible Clueless

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u/0MEGALUL- 3d ago

The voices are my friends but the psych said they don’t count

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u/ArkofVengeance 3d ago

It's one of those things where, if you have to ask what it costs, you can't afford it.

Looks super cool though.

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u/Difficult_General167 4d ago

I didn't see the guy rolling over along the car. Shitty sim.

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u/symonty 4d ago

The lag is going to make you very sick, video , hydraulics , RF delay are going to make me puke big time.

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u/PMMeYourWorstThought 4d ago

Cellular video transmission. Probably sub 100ms latency. I would be surprised if it was even perceptible

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u/symonty 4d ago edited 4d ago

Then add video processing, hydraulic lag, and two way coms, you will be pushing it to get to sub 250ms which is where things start to fall apart in sims. Remember things like head sets are sub 20ms and at 100ms you start to get some serious issues … and by RTT of 250ms it is no longer real time.

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u/crankaholic 4d ago

Anything over 20ms ping is noticeable in a remote render video game service... and that's over fiber and rendered at 60fps on powerful hardware. Combine cheap sensors with a consumer RF signal, or even a cell tower signal, and some janky motion rig processing/actuator delay. No thanks. This is at least 200ms in just signal delay, then whatever other processing there is on top of that.

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u/Thommohawk117 4d ago

"unlimited range" lol

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u/fdsafsda332 3d ago

Its over 4G, so yeah, you can drive those RC cars in china from anywhere (with a bit of latency)

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u/EmilioFreshtevez 4d ago

If I win the lottery I’m paying somebody to make me a Steel Battalion seat.

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u/Advanced_Sea_8457 4d ago

Drone warfare

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u/jfin602 4d ago

Dude hell ya. Even if it was just with lasers that disabled the enemy drone for a few seconds. Id do that all day long

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u/Advanced_Sea_8457 3d ago

My thoughts exactly would be awesome to use bb's or paint balls as well

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u/ThickHotDog 15h ago

Have you seen the videos in Ukraine? Drone ware fare is very terrifying.

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u/Advanced_Sea_8457 7h ago

Drone against drone not coward behind drone against human

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u/flapper_mcflapsnack 4d ago

Yeah. This is what rich me would do. Lol awesome.

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u/RichieRocket 3d ago

We Just need money

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u/hindered000 4d ago

all fun and games until a random kid flips the rc car over

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u/styx31989 4d ago

The song sounds very familiar. Anyone know what it’s from?

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u/Neon_Drifts 4d ago

Sounds like an instrumental cover of Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven.

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u/Remarkable_Doubt2988 4d ago

That's 100% correct

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u/duggee315 4d ago

I know gonna be expensive and range issues or whatever. But on the positive side it looks fucking awesome fun 👌

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u/usumoio 4d ago

It does not have unlimited range. It might have excellent range for what it is, but they probably have not invented one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of information technology, and elected to use it for RC racing.

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u/WaltKerman 3d ago

The cell phone?

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u/DingleDonky 3d ago

So EasY AnyOnE CaN Do IT. OnLY $50,000 nEeded To pLaY!

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u/SgtBadAsh 3d ago

Range and latency are definitely gonna be major issues

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u/LongjumpingStrategy6 4d ago

this is awesome! I want one

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u/MenopauseMedicine 4d ago

This is stupid, for the same price you can build a low level rally car and actually go driving

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u/DrumLB 3d ago edited 3d ago

Except when you crash it, which you would pretty shortly. You have to buy a whole nother low level rally car. A new RC car is a little cheaper. And easier to work on. Parts are cheaper. Plus with RC cars anywhere can be a track. Real rally cars can only be driven legally on designated roads. Which means driving to those areas. Requesting permission from the land owner.

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u/lmnopw 4d ago

Nice

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u/StuLuvsU87 4d ago

I don’t think I want it to feel real if you have stuff like what happened at 00:18 simulated accurately. That seems like an ass bruising or face check to the dash IRL

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u/I_am__Lost 4d ago

All fun and games until the battery goes dead

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u/corentin4438 3d ago

for just few dozen of thousand dollars... !

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u/esposito164 3d ago

What if the rc flips

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u/behappybrev 3d ago

Hear me out!!

CARS WITH GUNS

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u/NotaContributi0n 3d ago

So awesome

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u/hairyriceballs 3d ago

Does this work for drones? Asking for a Ukrainian friend.

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u/Goat_Status_5000 3d ago

The ultimate racing game. Amazing!

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u/WellYoureWrongThere 3d ago

Looks cool but you can see the delay so the whole setup is pointless.

There's no way you could have an RC zipping along at 50kmph, transfer that data back and have hydrologics react fast enough to have this be anything close to real-time, authentic experience.

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u/Shira_Kaisuri 3d ago

Okay now someone just needs to make better remote control robots and then we'll have Gundam build fighters!

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u/Horus_Whistler 3d ago

Do a flip!

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u/notobama41 3d ago

Id pay a lot of money in their local currency for this

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u/Conscious-Run6156 3d ago

Send them to Ukraine and make more money

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u/JebsNZ 2d ago

Just buy a ficking car lol.

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u/black-metal-Nick 2d ago

Awesome now we will just connect it to this killer dog robot..

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u/cjwrapture 1d ago

Just wait till one of those hydraulic lines ruptures inside your home. Replacing your floors will cost as much as the machine.

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u/proletariat_sips_tea 3d ago

How hard would this be to make?