Research Driving Simulator featured on the BBC News

A Research Driving Simulator that I worked on creating the 3D graphics, was recently featured on the BBC News promoting road safety. You can see the report below,

The Driving Simulator was created for Nottingham University by XPI Simulation. A further video showing the comparison between the 3D graphics and the real world can be seen in my earlier blog post  University Of Nottingham Driving Simulator

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Toyota F1 Driving Simulator

A project that I have worked on over the past few years, involved me leading a team to create the track library for the Toyota F1 Simulator. Recently a video has surfaced on YouTube showing a couple of laps of the Barcelona F1 Circuit de Catalunya.

The circuit was created from LIDAR data and is extremely accurate.

To find out more about the Toyota F1 Simulator have a look at there website which also includes a list of all the tracks that have been generated from LIDAR data.

There website can be found here Toyota Driving Simulator

DSTL Real Time Ray Tracing Press Release

A project that I have worked on at XPI Simulation, which involved generating a 3D terrain model from LIDAR data and then using this model to see if it could be ray traced in real time.

For more information and some more images please follow this link;

https://www.dstl.gov.uk/pages/238

University of Nottingham Driving Simulator

The company that I work for XPI Simulation have just delivered its latest driving simulator to the University of Nottingham. I lead the team creating the visuals which were generated using LIDAR data to produce extremely accurate results. The Picture in Picture enables you to compare the view seen in the simulator with a real life video of the same route. Notice how the bumps of the car match up with the bumps in the real life video footage. The cars that are driving around the model are all controlled by AI.