Park to Play turns your car into game controller
I've done this before. Ford used to have a WRC Focus on display at events that you could sit in and use the actual controls to drive a virtual version in a racing game displayed on a screen in front of the car. Park to Play is very similar, except that it appears this technology can be applied to any car and works with any game. While we don't know exactly how it works because we can't translate Dutch, what it does is turn your car into a giant video game controller. For instance, a D-pad or analog stick of a game controller would be the steering wheel. Right trigger could then be the driver's side car door opening, left trigger the left car door. Your gas pedal would be the A button and the brake would be the B button.
The video after the jump shows off Park to Play working with games like Tetris and Pinball, but why you ever use this technology for anything other than racing games is beyond us. Throw some GT5 Prologue in the tray, pull your crap Nissan 240SX into the garage and Park to Play will let you imagine your RWD econo-coupe is the new GT-R.
As we said, our knowledge of how Park to Play works and whether or not it's even available to purchase is extremely limited. Nevertheless, the mind reels at what it could be used for.
[Source: Park to Play via Freshcreation]
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avus 5:45PM (10/22/2007)
same idea/concept used in the 2005 Scion xA Speedster that debuted at SEMA
http://www.autoblog.com/2005/11/01/five-axis-creates-scion-xa-speedster-for-sema/
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Art 5:45PM (10/22/2007)
ull your crap Nissan 240SX into the garage and Park to Play will let you imagine your RWD econo-coupe is the new GT-R.
excuse me? what do you drive?
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joe 6:04PM (10/22/2007)
All japanese cars are crap and econo-cars. Didn't you get the memo?
stefan 6:16PM (10/22/2007)
The 240SX ain't crap its one of the best drift cars around and it has been tuner favorite for years.
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ckm 6:27PM (10/22/2007)
They don't seem to have any explanations of how it works on their website (yes, I can read Dutch...).
It looks like there may be some external controls sensing steering angle, headlights and brake lights, plus door opening.
Chris.
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bert 9:17AM (10/23/2007)
You can't buy it.
You can rent the setup for shows, fairs, festivals. The people come down, install it in a car of your choice, then when the fair or whatever is over, they come and pick it up again.
The point of the game is not to be realistic. For example, with Tetris, you need four people in the car, the left front foor turns the block, the right front door makes it go down faster, and the back two doors move the block from left to right.
Apparently you can play car games realistically, but it is more focused on having fun with 3 or 4 players, because it is so ridiculous.
It is used as a tool to draw people into your booth at a fair, in order to gain customers.
darth 6:46PM (10/22/2007)
who came up with taht stupid idea
Infiniti's for example aren't really efficient
Adn they are also very good cars
and how about the new GT-R?
econobox? no
Crap...no
ugly...Mabye but thats another story
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bert 9:18AM (10/23/2007)
I forgot to mention,
they rig sensors in the doors/pedals/steeringwheel, that are then basically wired into a cable, ending in a regular serial bus plug, just like a regular gamecontroller. Instead of buttons, there's sensors.
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