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Many, many years ago (20+ eek) I worked on a 3D simulator for the New York Subway (even though we were based near London, UK). They were upgrading it from the l
by hi_hi 2y ago
Many, many years ago (20+ eek) I worked on a 3D simulator for the New York Subway (even though we were based near London, UK). They were upgrading it from the legacy video based system to an interactive 3D sim.
There was something deeply fulfilling about having the legacy videos running side by side with the realtime 3D view and having them almost perfectly in sync.
We were running on inhouse designed and built, industrialised graphics cards, using 3DFX chips. It was a magical time to be involved with the cutting edge of 3D graphics as the industry tipped from Silicon Graphics and Evans & Sutherland "big iron" to consumer hardware.
- lxgr 2y agoWas this for internal training purposes, or was it ever released publicly?
- teqsun 2y agoI was also interested, but according to MTA Train Operators the computer that runs it is often out of service, and some who did felt it required a very exact placement: https://old.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/1ezw72n/does_mta_have_something_like_this_for_training/ https://old.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/1ezw72n/does_mta_h...
- hi_hi 2y agoInteresting. It's a shame there's no images or more info. I never saw the sim deployed, so I'd love to see if what they were discussing was the same I'd worked on. For the previous question, it was an internal training sim, not public.