Real Time Race
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Dr Roderick Kennedy, Technology Officer
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| Company type | (Limited company) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer Graphics |
| Founded | 2003 |
Key people | Christopher Leigh, Chief Executive Dr Roderick Kennedy, Technology Officer |
| Products | iFlex and vFit |
Number of employees | 10 (approx.) |
| Website | corporate.realtimerace.com |
Real Time Race Limited is a company based at Daresbury Laboratory in North West England. The company was Founded in 2003 by Christopher Leigh and Stuart Scott-Goldstone.
In 2008, Real Time Race worked with Malaysian owned Lotus Cars to test a video capture vehicle. It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lasers for Lidar, a Global Positioning System, an Inertial navigation system and 5 high definition cameras.[1]
iFlex
In 2009, Dr Roderick Kennedy and Christopher Leigh invented a Free viewpoint television technology called iFlex[2] which used the captured data from a moving platform. The optical graphics engine, based on image-based modeling and rendering produces an immersive video environment. This is used, amongst other applications, in race car simulation.[3]
vFit
Real Time Race also claims to have augmented iFlex with live real world objects instead of Computer-Generated Imagery.[4] vFit is the artificial intelligence system allowing realistic physics and collision interaction between the real and virtual objects.