The game racing company trading for smartphones RC cars

Carrera, a German company that has been making car games since the 1960s, has announced a new new racing experience that completely eliminates the openings. Carrera hybrid You still have a 1: 50 cars around a formable track, but you control it using an application on a mobile device and you are now free to guide anywhere you want, even outside the path to overcome the opponent.

Carrera Hybrid is already available at the international level, but the company is starting in the United States on September 1 for $ 199.99, which includes a mixture of 15 consecutive and curved pieces and a pair of contestants Porsche 911 GT3 R. The company currently offers a wide range of vehicles licensed to traditional car products, but it plans to expand the hybrid version with known cars from Mercedes-Aamg and Audi and BMW.

Instead of drawing energy from the metal bars on the path, the hybrid vehicles use Carrera Carrera Vehicles that are good rechargeable for 30 minutes of races. Each one connects to a mobile device like a smartphone or a tablet above Bluetooth. You can direct vehicles by transforming your device physically like the wheel, but you can also get a free mobile phone application, available to iOS and Android, with a wireless control unit, which makes the race similar to the video game.

The sensors in the bottom of each car discover patterns printed on the path so that the application always knows the location of all vehicles, and while up to 30 users can race on one design, the application limits to 16 competitive races where statistics are tracked. Carrera Hybrid’s free nature creates more opportunities to bypass opponents while the application increases realism through sound effects and by allowing players to adjust performance and deal with their cars, including tire grip and brake sensitivity. The application can also simulate the different path conditions for a greater challenge, or help the less experienced contestants in driving devices.

The company says it has spent the past few years developing Carrera Hybrid. It reminds us Anki Drive, which first appeared in 2013 With a fixed path planning, follow -up, Anki overriveThat presented the re -formal pathways in 2015. Overdrive has offered a lot of the same features and functions for Carrera Hybrid, as well as opponents who are controlled by Amnesty International, however Close anki in the end In 2019, we hope that Carrera will have been making games for the race for about 60 years, and will continue to invest in its hybrid offers and maintain the auction groups that are active for a long longer period than ANKI.