A producer of Gran Turismo 5 has stated that the January 2010 shown ‘data logging’feature to the game will soon be available for consumers. In what time frame that will are made, the producer is not known.
“The Data Logger for Gran Turismo 5 sets the consumer is able to data from the real world to save with a usb stick, to these data and then visualize it in Gran Turismo 5,’ explained Gran Turismo producer Taku Imasaki on GT Channel. Gamers would also be the data of, for example, Formula 1 drivers or leading drifters from all over the world in their game can load.
The Data Logger combines the data from the car itself with the on the basis of gps location of the car, and translates that to the game, such as in this Japanese film is demonstrated. Imasaki does in his interview, believe that consumers are the rides that they have with their own car, you can load in Gran Turismo 5, but up to now there are only Data Logger-videos that were created on circuits that are already in the game were. Or the Data Logger is also not in the game sitting environment can generate, for example, on the basis of Google Streetview, is not known.
The Data Logger appeared after more than a year of radio silence during the presentation of the Scion FR-S/Toyota 86. Toyota and Sony Computer Entertainment are working together on the feature, which according to Imasaki ‘soon’ available to consumers. GT Planet is expected that the introduction of the Scion FR-S/Toyota 86 in 2012 more information about the Data Logger is known. Previously, Sony already announced that the Scion FR-S/Toyota 86 as dlc will be available for Gran Turismo 5.
Video from 2010 with the Data Logger in action