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Nov. 6, 2013, 5:49 a.m.
11/6/2013
By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com
VRC Pro is raced world wide, and with time zones spreading 20 hours from New Zealand to California, it is impossible to organize real-time multi-player events where everyone would be able to participate. It would mean having to race in the middle of the night for some, for others in the morning, at noon or in the evening. VRC has developed a unique solution for this problem: time shifted multi-player!
VRC has developed ‘virtual opponents’, a unique feature that enables us to offer time-shifted multi-player competitions. We record your race session (replay) and offer it to other racers in the same event, heat or final to race against. So your race could be raced a few hours or minutes earlier than another competitor and then other competitors can than opt to race against you. In qualifying you race against the clock so the opponents are on the track while you qualify. If you beat them you improve your position. In finals you start from the start grid, if you finish in front of all the others you win!
With the introduction of the virtual opponents and targets in the on-line events, VRC Pro has added a whole new dimension to its competitions. No longer are you racing alone on the track but can you chose to race together with other racers who are in the same qualifier or main final. This adds tremendous pressure to the whole racing experience. Just like in real r/c racing you have to beat them to improve. This important element in racing was missing in VRC Pro, and instead of using the AI car technology (computer generated opponents) from version 3, the development team opted to use the replay files of racers to let them race with you!
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