Simulator Controller with AI-based virtual assistants (race engineer and race strategist)

Release 5.8.2 brings more events and actions for the GPT / LLM integration for the Assistants. Additionally, the "Practice Center" and the "Race Center" will now save a recorded session to the session database, from there it can be shared with your team members or your crew chief or coach for evaluation. And the release contains a new, fully rewritten runtime for local LLMs.

As an addition, I have a TL;DW recording from our latest coaching session in our Discord for you. It as an 1-hour trip into the rabbit hole of using GPT-based large language models to boost the intelligence and extend the capabilities of the Race Assistants.

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Release 5.8.3

14 majors changes and additions are part of this release. A couple more events for the LLM integration, a browser for sessions stored in the session database and - most notably - a new, simplified UI for the "Race Center". Details can be found in the Release Notes.

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Lots of new stuff this week:

1. Non-circuit tracks like Rally stages, hill climb tracks and even street roads can now be mapped correctly. After you gut a track map, you can use Track Automations to create pace notes, or automate car settings depending on track position.



2. Many new events and actions for the LLM integration are provided for Spotter. One of which enable you to automate actions like saving the replay after a pitstop or at the end of the race.

3. The local LLM runtime now supports non-Nvidia GPUs using the Vulkan driver.

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Beside several important bug fixes, we have two major changes this week:

1. If you have configured an LLM to boost the intelligence of the Race Assistants, it si now possible to let the Assistants collaborate on a given task. Example: The Spotter recognized that your direct opponent ahead is pitting. The LLM can then trigger an action, which informs the Strategist by an event, so that he will check the strategy and probably call you to the pit as well. Addionally this release once again comes with several new predefined events and actions for the LLM integration.

2. You can now open almost any report in the "Practice Center" in a separate window. This makes it easier to compare laps and other important data. This feature has already been around in the "Race Center", but is now available for the "Practice Center" as well.



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This time I renamed two applications. "Practice Center" has become "Solo Center" and "Race Center" has become "Team Center", which reflects much better, the purpose and scope of these applications. The "Solo Center" got a lot of love in the area of tyre handling and we have a new LLM event for the Spotter.

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This week we have a couple of fixes for AMS2 and R3E as well as a rework of the muted mode of the Assistants and some improvements for the "Strategy Workbench".

Additionally, a critical bug has been fixed for "Solo Center" and "Team Center" which results in saved sessions having the wrong file extension, which made them useless. All those sessions will be recovered automatically.

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Today we introduce a new data category in Simulator Controller. Car telemetery data can be collected lap by lap in the "Solo Center" and can be stored in the session database, thereby sharing them with your team or even with the whole community. Telemetry data can be compared, for example to find out why a lap was slower then the best reference lap.



Future releases will integrate this feature also into the "Team Center", so that you can view the telemetry data of your team mate in real time and in the long run, the AI of the Driving Coach will have a full understanding of this data and will be able to discuss areas of improvement with you.

Beside that, lap times and sector times have been fixed for RaceRoom Racing Experience.

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Thanks to @Diego Falcone Dev_Dk HawkOne we introduce today the full support for the Italian language inc. conversation with the Assistants.



Beside that, we have many improvements for the new telemetry support, incl. integration for the "Team Center". And the internal database engine got a substantial performance boost, which benefits all applications. Take a look at the Release Notes for detailed information.

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3 new channels have been added to the telemetry data system and telemetry is now also available in the "Setup Workbench" during setup development. Last but not least, an integration with "Second Monitor", a sophisticated telemetry tool has been finished with the kind support of @Winzarten.

A critical bug has been fixed for iRacing, which prevented the Spotter from alerting about nearby cars.

Infos about additional changes can be found in the Release Notes.

We will have a live coaching session about all the new stuff on Monday, 19:00 CEST in our Discord. Feel free to join...

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Todays release contains several important fixes. Of course, there is some new stuff as well.

1. The Spotter now gives you the delta to your own lap time, when he informs about current lap times of other cars.
2. The tyre temperature related compound recommendation for the next pitstop by the Engineer got much better.
3. And we have updated the car meta data for RaceRoom Racing Experience to the latest version.

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Release 5.9.4 comes with another bunch of improvements for the latest addition of lap telemetry analysis features. You now can define your own layouts for the telemetry viewer and you can decide which telemetry channels should be displayed. An importer for MoTeC data is also part of the package.

Beside that, RaceRoom Racing Experience again got a lot of love. For example, all Simulator Controller apps now can handle sessions correctly where cars with a race number of "0" are present (weird, isn't it, but R3E allows that).

Todays release will be the last feature release until December, where we will hopefully see a really incredible new feature for the 4th anniversary of Simulator Controller. Stay tuned...


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Another intermezzo release while we are working on the next big thing for the anniversary release. Nevertheless, the Engineer got two new voice commands to control handling of tyre pressure loss during pitstop. And documentation for voice commands for all supported languages has been finally added. The details can be found in the release notes, as always.

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Although it is still a week to go for the 4th anniversary and the official release of the new Driving Coach, I will open the beta version to the public today. A small team has been testing it throughout the last two weeks and it looks already fully stable.

The 6.0.0 brings a stunning extension to the Driving Coach, which is now able to work with you on your driving techniques directly on the track. To do this, the Coach has a full understanding of telemetry data and can compare your performance against a reference lap of you or one of your team mates, or even against a lap of a different source. Here is a recording of a typical training session (incl. jump marks):

Since the coaching functionality needs some preparation and configuration to work correctly, please read the new documentation for it:

Virtual Driving Coach

IMPORTANT: The Beta version will not install automatically. Instructions can be found on our Discord: Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

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Four years of Simulator Controller - what a ride. And as in every year, I am happy to release a great new feature for Simulator Controller to celebrate the anniversary. This time we have, as all of you already know, a new AI which is capable to work with you on your driving skills on the track. When I released the original Driving Coach a year ago, I always had a functionality like this in mind, but I needed several months to figure out how to do it properly. There is so much data crunching involved and a GPT model is not really good at that. But I don't want to bother you with technical details. Important is, the I didn't want just a tool which tells you "Brake later" or "Accelerate earlier" here and there, but I wanted "someone" that can discuss all the ins and outs of your track performance with you - on the track and after a session. I think, I have delivered, but judge it by yourself.

Release 6.0 is ready for download!

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Tomorrow evening, Monday, 19:00 CET, I will run an online session in our Discord, where I demonstrate everything about the Driving Coach from configuration to running a practice session and working with telemetry data. Questions are very welcome...

 

After having released the new on-track coaching with the last version, I will add some additional functionality today and probably also with the following releases. The most important addition today is the capability of the Driving Coach to provide some basic coaching even if no LLM has been configured yet. Since this will be the case for most new users, this will reduce the number of configuration steps required for an initial experience.

Beside that we have several optimizations in the UI and the telemetry importer has been optimized. See the Release Notes for details here.

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Version 6.0.2 now supports automatic detection of track sections. Using this the Driving Coach can finally provide on-track coaching without additional preparations. Automatically created track sections may not be perfect, so take your time and fine-tune them if required.

Additionally, hotlap and time trial sessions are now supported for all simulators, which provide them. For more smaller additions and changes see the Release Notes for more information.

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