Forza Motorsport 5 is driven by the cloud

Grazed from Polygon. Author: Samit Sarkar.

Forza Motorsport 5’s developers at Turn 10 Studios are bringing the power of cloud computing to bear in an attempt to deliver a personalized racing title that tailors your experience to the way you play and carries it forth even when you’re not playing.

The cornerstone of Forza 5’s cloud functionality is a feature called Drivatar (pronounced DRIVE-uh-tar), which the studio showed off during Microsoft’s E3 press briefing yesterday. Drivatar actually debuted in the original Forza Motorsport in 2005, but according to Bill Giese, design director of Forza 5, Turn 10 didn’t have the technology to realize its vision for the feature until the Xbox One…

Forza 5 tracks everything about the way you race — not just the the types of cars you drive, but the paths you take around the track as well — and pushes it up to the cloud. There, that data is compiled into a profile and extrapolated into a Drivatar. The Drivatar is essentially a virtual driver that exhibits your tendencies in races. If you only choose cars with front wheel drive, so will your Drivatar; if you’re not afraid to bump other racers and cut corners, that’s how it will drive. Giese said Forza 5 gets as specific as noticing that you always understeer through a particular turn at Laguna Seca…

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