This $35k Racing Sim Setup Deserves A Place In Your Dream House

Tech YouTuber Unbox Therapy has created an amazing racing sim setup with three 65-inch curved OLED screens

18 Oct 2016

A video like this will naturally lead to one question (well, two if you include “why is that man shouting?”) - why would anyone spend so much on a racing sim setup, when the same amount of money would buy a pretty sweet car? It’s a simple answer: generally, if you’re rich enough to blow $35,000 on a cool plaything, you’ll probably be rich enough to own a few fast cars too. After all, even well-off people can’t be racing at the Nurburgring one minute and then Laguna Seca the next.

That said, it’s not the best setup we’ve seen, and those pricey OLED TVs push the price into the territory of systems with features like head tracking and even motion simulation. Although if you’re really rich, you can spend even more: here’s one that costs $185k…

Via via Car Scoops

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

With $35k, i can buy myself a project car

Maybe

So so true

You have to think about the future. If we ever reach a point where cars are all autonoumous and actual driving becomes a crime. Then I’d spend ALL my car and mods budget on a racing sim.

Simulation Disklok? No? Too far maybe?

#cheekydisklok

Or is there, think about it…… Let that soak in….

#DisklokBeingDisklok

You could save alot of that money If you get a vr headset instead…

Pros and Cons to that, for sure, but yes. I think that would be much more immersive.

65-Inch TV?! Bloody Hell, that’d give me the best movie-viewing experience short of going to the Cinema!

I can buy an actual car for the cost of owning a fake car on a computer screen

But u have every car

Or a NB MX5, upgrades, and a track day?

Dream House? well my dream house would have its own track.

Ive got the same wheel, pedals, and shifter, but the rest, na.

I am subscribed to Unbox Therapy and i posted this in their Youtube comments, i will post it here too

Lemme explain how this could be a better, cheaper and smaller (good for moving stuff around say, when you want to play a non racing sim) setup!

Equipment

SimXperience Accuforce Pro Steering Wheel system - $1,700
HTC Vive - £650 ($800?)
ProtoSimTech PT-1 Pedals - $440
LG 38 inch ultawide - $1500
SimXperience Stage 4 Motion Simulator - ~$5700

The PC

i7 6950X - £1600 ($1900?)
Titan XP - $1200
NZXT Kraken X61 - £100 ($120?)
Asus ROG STRIX X99 GAMING - £290 ($330?)
G.Skill Ripjaws 32GB (8x4GB) - £200 ($240?)
Samsung 4TB SSD - £1200 ($1400?)
Corsair 780T - £160 ($200?)
Windows 10 Pro - £130 ($150?)
Corsair CS650M - £80 ($100?)

$20k less!