flight simulator

[chuckwhut]

clicky here

A custom F-16 fighter simulator, it runs off 120 dual core PCs with 120 $400 graphics cards inside them, all chained together.

 

[chuckwhut]

there is a video with the article that is pretty cool

 

[BigBody79]

if you are going to go that far, you might as well make the guy wear a flight helmet in stead of those $20.00 head phones.

 

[RatLabGuy]

After all that investment in teh processing for realism, I'm really surprised it isn't projected ontoa spherical surface for better realism.

I also wonder what they are doing for simulating 3d sound, that goes a loooong way to adding realism too... but isn't trivial.

I'd bet the biggest hangup now is the refresh rate on projectors