Rocket Racers - NASCAR meets Star Wars - Miles O'Brien Reports on Rocket Racing League

NASCAR meets Star Wars in a cross between high octane sports, rocket powered aircraft, and some virtual reality to make it blow your mind. This is the Rocket Racing League - RRL

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[BrotherOrchid]

Yellow flag....debris in the sky.

[Guinnie]

thats a heck of a lot more interesting than Nascar if you ask me

[Berkut13]

When's the next event?

[bhempy9]

Isn't that the same technology the blue angels use

[Zetsumei vi Britannia]

Miles O'Brien? Star Wars? What the heck?

[joeltts999]

no overtaking on the final corner, that'll give ya a 20 second penalty

[MultiPower999]

Что это за хренатень,в чём прикол? Реклама рубашек безразмерных?

[drja0801]

yeah, it appears they have some kinks to work out with the augmented reality technology, it doesn't appear as if the gate will appear behind the airplane.

I watched the streaming video of the event online, they used the augmented reality with a Cessna and didn't use it for the rocket racers, not sure if they used it for the people attending the event.

This will be very important for aerospace, with a performance envelope(of the engine, not the aircraft) similar to the Bell X-1.

[rekrapmij]

The racers missed every gate, but the gates "blew up" as if they'd made every gate. I guess augmented reality is not only infinitely malleable but also infinitely fakeable.

[tehBac6n]

Umm...that's friggin awesome!

[Haven Luckenbill]

Miles O'Brien? Not just the technology, but even the journalists are from the future!