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 contents 1 technology 1.1 iflex 1.2 vfit 2 development 3 references 4 external links technology edit iflex edit 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 edit 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 . development edit real time race stated its intention to use the technology for interactive television motor racing in 2010 . in a televised interview for bbc click mark wilkin formula one editor of the bbc commented that viewers wanted something more sophisticated than cgi video games . he said he will be interested to see how the system would handle collisions . 5 references edit http news.bbc.co.uk 1 mobile programmes click online 8333340 . stm http www.diseno art.com news real time racing.html race car engineering december 2009 http www.racecar engineering.com news products 428952 a new dawn for driver simulation.html engaget aol http www.engadget.com 2009 11 02 real time race promises to let you race against the pros in rea http news.bbc.co.uk 1 mobile programmes click online 8333340 . stm external links edit real time race website . bbc news article retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title real time race & oldid 647125373 categories companies based in cheshiretelevision technology navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olsuomi edit links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 17 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view