Air Race X: Tokyo startup’s bold but flawed vision for mixed reality air races

Professional sports is a powerful area of the entertainment industry where virtual reality and augmented reality technologies have yet to truly break through. The main focus right now is on watching existing sports competitions with varying degrees of success by placing the audience right where the action is, such as sitting courtside at a basketball game. Over the weekend, Psychic VR launched a new project called Air Race X, showcasing a bold vision of what sports can look like with an immersive mixed reality experience. The project is not centered around watching existing sports in VR, nor is it creating entirely new sports for the VR or AR medium. Instead, Air Race While it's an interesting concept, the execution turns out to be more complex than reality. Here's what happened. On Sunday, October 15, 2023, investors, media, local government officials and other guests gathered to watch Air Race X in Shibuya, Tokyo. This is just one aspect of the technology, concepts and projects in development showcased at Psyvhic VR Labs’ three-day media event last week. In 2019, we noted that Psychic was a company that was confident about the future of virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Four years later today…

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