| ironman said: The GT development team were given the responsibility of designing the new in car monitor called the "multifunction meter" for the new Nissan GT-R. At the Press Preview of the 40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007 it was unveiled that the GT development team at Polyphony Digital were given the responsibility of planning and designing the new in car monitor called the "multifunction meter" for the new model GT-R. Nissan declared "We believe that this is the world's first device that allows the car to tell the driver about the condition of the car” and that the reason for the collaboration with GT was “because this is a medium that allows a connection between the real and the virtual. I tried driving the new model GT-R in GT, and was surprised at how it felt exactly like the sensation of driving the GT-R in real life." Well well well, it would seem that (as I suspected) the car itself was NOT designed by polyphony, rather the dashboard was. This was obviously more of a marketing ploy on the part of Nissan.
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http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/02/paris-2008-the-gt-by-citroen-no-the-whole-thing-this-time/
emember that we reported on the Nissan GT-R for which "Polyphony Digital was commissioned to design the multifunction display"? Well, now Citroen has now unveiled its own Gran Turismo and Polyphony Digital concept car at the Paris Motorshow.
According to Just-Auto, the French auto-maker, claims that its GTbyCitroen concept car "is the first ever car to be specifically designed to bring the virtual and real worlds together".
We're not sure what that means - but we sure hope that ace driving star, Carl Edwards, doesn't get anywhere near it.
The site also quotes Polyphony Digital's Kazanori Yamauchi, as follows,"To see the [concept] take shape in our game studios and then for real has been a truly unique experience - as our work normally stays in the digital world."
then we have the citroen.
