I tried playing with 'Go with heavy equipment', a heavy equipment driving simulator that allows you to experience ultra-realistic excavator driving with a smartphone or VR
The excavator car driving simulator 'Go with heavy equipment ' fulfills the desire of 'I want to drive a shovel car once!' And the desire of 'I want to carry out driving training without preparing an actual machine'. 'Go with heavy machinery' is a simulator born from the voice of a construction company that is actually active using heavy machinery, and you can experience a realistic operation feeling. I always wanted to drive a shovel car, so I actually played 'Go with heavy equipment' on a smartphone or VR and tried to fully experience driving a shovel car.
What is Go with heavy machinery?-Go official website with heavy machinery
◆ I tried playing the iOS version
There are smartphone version and VR version of 'Heavy Machine Go', and the smartphone version is compatible with iOS and Android. In addition, there are free and paid versions of each. This time, in order to play the free version of the iOS version, I searched for 'Go -Excavator Car LITE- with Heavy Machinery ' in the App Store and tapped 'Get'.
Then tap 'Install'.
When the installation is complete, tap 'Open' to start 'Go on Heavy Machinery'.
The top screen of 'Heavy Machine Go' looks like this. I don't know how to drive a shovel car at all, so first tap 'Tutorial' to learn how to drive.
When the tutorial starts, you will first be asked to choose one of the two control patterns, 'JIS method' and 'Komatsu method'.
The JIS method (left) and the Komatsu method (right) differ in the operation method for bending and stretching the arm and turning left and right. This time, I chose the JIS method because I thought that the JIS method would be easier to understand because the lever operation to the left and right and the turning direction match.
In the tutorial, you can learn how to operate with the selected control pattern while actually driving the excavator car.
Now that you have learned the operation method in the tutorial, tap 'Start' to challenge the training this time.
First of all, let's try 'Excavator basic operation 1' where you can experience the two tasks of 'digging soil and loading it on a truck' and 'carrying rocks to a designated position'. Tap 'Confirm' to start training.
In training, you will drive the excavator car to perform the tasks instructed on the screen. Even in the basic work of 'digging soil', situations such as 'misadjusting the angle of the bucket and the car body floats up' and 'when loading soil on the truck, it comes into contact with the truck' occur. You can feel the difficulty of driving an excavator car. You can check the actual training situation in the following movie.
When the training is complete, the time it takes to complete, the number of times you have touched an obstacle such as a track, and the number of falls are displayed.
With the free version of 'Go with Heavy Machines', you can try two types of training. The content of 'Excavator basic operation 2' is 'hang a drum can in a bucket and pass it between poles so that the drum can does not touch'.
When I actually played it, I had to move the car body while adjusting the angle of the drum crawler and arm, and I had to carefully perform multiple operations.
This time, I ended up touching the pole 20 times. However, with 'Heavy Machine Go', you can perform training as many times as you like even in the free version, so it seems that you can improve the operation of the excavator car by trying many times.
◆ I tried playing the VR version
There is also a VR version of 'Heavy Machine Go', and you can experience driving an excavator car with
First, click 'Click here for the free version' on the introduction page of the VR version to move to the distribution page.
On the distribution page, it is displayed that 'Go with heavy machinery' is the development version, so click 'OK'.
After that, if you sign in with your Facebook account or Oculus account and click 'Free', you can play with each VR goggles.
You can try the same training with the VR version as with the smartphone version. Compared to the smartphone version, the VR version makes it very easy to understand the distance between the excavator car and the surroundings and the distance between the bucket and soil, rocks, etc., and you can feel like you are driving a real excavator car. You can also experience realistic driving, such as 'visually check the destination when turning' and 'check the positional relationship between the vehicle body and the truck when loading soil on the truck'.
◆ Summary
When I actually played with 'Go with heavy machinery', I could choose two types of control patterns and challenge a training plan designed to learn the operation method, a simulator that allows you to experience the operation of the excavator car realistically. was. In addition, the VR version allows you to look around and visually check the distance, so you can enjoy a very realistic excavator car driving experience.
In addition to the free version played this time, there is a paid version that allows you to experience 7 types of operation training and 9 types of accident cases, and at the time of article creation, the iOS version is 120 yen and the Android version is 100 yen. You can get it at.
In addition, the VR version also has a paid version that allows you to experience 7 types of operation training, 9 types of accident cases, and 3 types of danger prediction training, and you can get it for 90 yen at the time of writing the article.
In addition, the official website says, 'We are working hard on other heavy machinery!', So it seems that you can experience driving various heavy machinery in the future.
Related Posts:
