Burn, Baby, Burn: Real-Time Online Racing

By Phillip Mlynar

Think you can burn rubber and slide into a slipstream just as speedily as any reckless professional racing car driver? Head over to Real-Time Racing where they’ve just opened a registration – ahem – drive to find the 5,000 top video game speed demons in the world.

Their patented ‘Orange Box’ technology allows for real-time tracking of race cars – which then shoots the data back via GPS to online gamers who can test their own skills against the pros. Which means that online race gaming is about to get a whole deal more realistic…