The Ironman you do at home, on TV , on your Nintendo Wii gaming system: 2.4 mile Vasa swim trainer, 112 mile Computrainer ride, 26.2 run on treadmill for Nintendo Wii. No entry hassles, no entry fee. The race date is when you think you’re ready.
Ironman for Nintendo Wii.
It doesn’t exist yet, but the technology is there. We’ve seen the comments about the surrent system. Is this one possible answer?
Would you do it?
I can see them charging some fees to enter an online race…
The Ironman you do at home, on TV , on your Nintendo Wii gaming system: 2.4 mile Vasa swim trainer, 112 mile Computrainer ride, 26.2 run on treadmill for Nintendo Wii. No entry hassles, no entry fee. The race date is when you think you’re ready.
Ironman for Nintendo Wii.
It doesn’t exist yet, but the technology is there. We’ve seen the comments about the surrent system. Is this one possible answer?
Would you do it?
I don’t plan on racing an Ironman anytime soon, but if I was, I would for sure say “No way”. I think the experience of the race is really fun and you wont be making any solid memories from your living room. For example, I vividly remember how on the first aid station at Austria 70.3 last year, there was a local guy with a wine barrel handing out wine to cyclists with a sign that said “My Powerbar”. Memories that make you smile like that are what make racing so great.
My favorite memory of IMMoo 09 was a guy on the first ‘tour’ hill that had a sign saying ‘You paid 500 dollars for this!?’ and everyone that was near me corrected him that it was actually 550 dollars.
Agree’d IM, or at least, the first IM is all about the memories.
Probably not. It would be really boring, even if it was live-streamed with other people doing the “race” at the same time. The experience of the crowds, etc. can’t be translated to a video game.
Yes, but you can run down the “chute” with your wife, kids and dog in this race (at least for now, although the treadmill might get crowded).
As to Tom’s question. No. Freaking. Way.
When are you going to run out of made-up subjects to promote your latest web site?
Tom’s smarter than you think (and certainly in this instance is smarter than you). Our boy at LAVA Jim Gourley (who has a brilliant blog…y’all need to pick up his feed) writes today about… you guessed it… a triathlon game interface. At least for kids thus far. It’s actually guest-written by another LAVA writer (and fellow Arizona j-school grad… which matters because we beat the everliving shit out of Gourley’s Duke last week), Ryan Schneider.
The Ironman you do at home, on TV , on your Nintendo Wii gaming system: 2.4 mile Vasa swim trainer, 112 mile Computrainer ride, 26.2 run on treadmill for Nintendo Wii. No entry hassles, no entry fee. The race date is when you think you’re ready.
Ironman for Nintendo Wii.
It doesn’t exist yet, but the technology is there. We’ve seen the comments about the surrent system. Is this one possible answer?
Would you do it?
i doubt that would catch on. There is 0 “look-at-me” factor associated with that. Who would know how awesome you are unless you are surrounded by people?
No, but I would pay good money for a realistic Cycling “game” where you hook up a computrainer to a wii or playstation. Then you could compete vs friends online or computer generated opponents. Crits, RR, TT, whatever you wanted. Hook up the trainer to a Kinetic RR for the side to side motion. Really good graphics. Adjustable crash “realism”.
No, but I would pay good money for a realistic Cycling “game” where you hook up a computrainer to a wii or playstation. Then you could compete vs friends online or computer generated opponents. Crits, RR, TT, whatever you wanted. Hook up the trainer to a Kinetic RR for the side to side motion. Really good graphics. Adjustable crash “realism”.
Seriously, we were just talking about this yesterday. With all the technology out there, why doesn’t anyone use one of the systems and come up with something we can tie the CTs into? The Computrainer software sucks. Please tell me there is something in the works!
Only if they get Mile Reilly to do the voice over: “you been at it for three days, 4 hours and thrity five minutes…>YOU ARE A Wii-Man!”
Kidding aside, hell NO!
Paul
doesn’t micheal phelps have an xbox kinect swimming game out soon?
Only in a world where human beings no longer wish to interact with one another would something like this happen.
Sadly I don’t think we are that far away.
A super sprint, yes.
The Ironman you do at home, on TV , on your Nintendo Wii gaming system: 2.4 mile Vasa swim trainer, 112 mile Computrainer ride, 26.2 run on treadmill for Nintendo Wii. No entry hassles, no entry fee. The race date is when you think you’re ready.
Ironman for Nintendo Wii.
It doesn’t exist yet, but the technology is there. We’ve seen the comments about the surrent system. Is this one possible answer?
Or you could just go outside and do your own Ironman any day of the week.No entry hassles,no entry fee.The race date is when you think you are ready AND you don’t have to buy a Vasa Swim Trainer,a Computrainer and a treadmill.
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This would be awesome (Cycling “game” not the IM one) but to make it more fun, there would definitely be an need to incorporate something for steering / handling. The R&R is a good start, but I think a way to handle cornering would make it very compelling.
id say no. maybe an olympic tri but after that id go crazy indoors. i think most people would come severely dehydrated from a bike/run combo all stationary and indoors
I can imagine the rug burn I will get from swimming 2.4 in my family room’s carpet.
This trainer (http://www.tacxvr.com/nl/products/fortius-multiplayer) is almost like a video game although not on a console such as playstation or wii. it seems like the trainer is hooked up to your computer and you can race others online and have to steer using the fork mount. could be interesting what they can do with it in a couple years.