A story from the games industry popping up today has word of a patented technology that would allow tracking of vehicles in a race, which can then be inserted into a simulation, allowing gamers to participate in real-time with a real-world race.

During the BarrysWorld days, we sponsored a racing car for a while, and one of the conversations we had with the racing team at the time was the possiblity of taking a copy of the car’s real-time data feed and inserting this data into a racing simulation, allowing computer gamers to participate – albeit virtually – in a race as it happened, or to replay a race with perfect accuracy.

Events conspired to prevent this, however the idea was so blindingly obvious I’m surprised it’s taken this long for the idea to gain traction.