u/newlife_game

I've been building PoleView, a spectator app rather than a driving game. The idea is that broadcast only ever shows you one car at a time, and I wanted to see the whole race at once.

This update adds two new circuits, both built from real elevation survey data rather than eyeballed, so the banking and the camber are actually where they should be. Thirty-second look: https://youtu.be/hegETh4v2I4

How it works: there's a showcase race built in that runs the moment you install it, no setup, nothing else needed. If you want live sessions it reads a timing feed from your own PC on the same network - that part isn't one-click and I'm not going to pretend it is.

Cars are generic and identities are coded, so this isn't affiliated with any series. It's a viewer for data you already have.

Free, Early Access, Quest 3 / 3S - it needs colour passthrough, so Quest 2 won't work. https://sidequestvr.com/app/61597/poleview

Happy to answer anything about the timing pipeline or the track geometry, both were more annoying than expected.

Hey everyone - we've been building PoleView, a Quest 3 / 3S mixed-reality app that reconstructs a motor race from real position data and renders the whole field as a holographic diorama on your actual table. You can scale it (0.4-3 m), walk around it, drop to trackside or rise to a bird's-eye view, and even bring your own live data feed over your home network (a free PC bridge; the headset finds it automatically).

A few things we cared about:

- Honest by design: real sessions are badged REAL DATA, simulations badged SIMULATED, live feeds show LIVE.

- Private: no accounts, no telemetry, no ads; it runs on-device and never sees your room.

- Cars are generic - it's about the racecraft, not liveries.

It's free on SideQuest. Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZWfskhhrhkM - more info: https://globalphoenix.co.uk/poleview

Would love feedback from this community - what would you want from a viewer like this? (Footage in the trailer is a simulated visualisation of position data.)