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0 pointsalexissantos5y ago0 comments

Let me know if you dabble with the RC cars!

We were thinking of using an RC car for part of this experience, but figured we'd leave that R&D project for another day.

Our main concern was designing/modifying the car (and its play space) in such a way where it doesn't get stuck. One of our goals was to make this an experience that can be managed and reset remotely by our team, so we wanted to avoid manual intervention as much as possible.

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willcipriano5y ago· 2 in thread

I was thinking about using making a scale model of a cityscape and letting people race cars with cameras mounted to them. Getting stuck would be a feature (just like a real car race, if you get stuck somewhere you'll lose), and require human intervention to fix. I think latency is the real problem, games work around this in many ways that aren't possible in the real world.

throwaway7446785y ago

You may want to check on 'Mario Kart Live: Home circuit' that Nintendo announced a few days ago. Basically an AR/VR mix of Mario Kart with real model cars running in your living room.

alexissantosOP5y ago

From my tinkering, I've found that MJPEG streams are the lowest latency live video I can get. Old school, but no buffering like HLS or MPEG-DASH, etc. I haven't tried modifying the buffering in HLS and the like to zilch (or at least as low as I can go), but that's one thing worth exploring. I keep it low res (640 x 360) and low fps, but use the new high quality Raspberry Pi cameras to get an image that looks decent regardless.

One way to get around the latency issue with RC cars is to pre-plot the path and build a puzzle around that. (Not that there has to be a puzzle in there.)

Also, if you like scale models, have we got somethin' cookin' for you!

birdyrooster5y ago

I’ve always wanted to make a twitch plays channel with an rc car and SDR

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