[cjlars]

I feel like the whole point of drone racing is to have that sort of video game in real life situation. You can have tighter turns, narrower gaps, and far more glorious crashes than you can get IRL... All without the risk to life and limb you see in, e.g. F1.

Recreating the same experience virtually is just boring. Like they took a game idea, made it IRL -- and full of IRL design constraints -- and then took all those disadvantages back to the virtual world. I just have no idea what the league is thinking here.

[Ancapistani]

I feel like that takes away part of what make FPV flying fun - there is no risk of injury or death, but you have enough skin in the game based on how much it’s likely to cost to repair when you do something risky to provide the adrenaline rush.

[bri3d]

I think DRL know this and are looking to move to in-person as soon as they can, the article just focuses on their "cloud" move during the pandemic since that's what's what was interesting to the video production audience.

The DRL Simulator is also... not great, even among drone simulators, so I suspect pilots who have been practicing in real life will appreciate the move back to real life as well.

[cjlars]

I think it's a cool concept and have been following it for a while, but it's worth noting that they started pushing the stimulator before, not after, the pandemic started. I think maybe to create a feeder league or something?

[mateo1]

I think the main idea here is to hook up young people to gambling.