Joker Racer – “Truly-Remote” Control Car Over The Internet

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Akky Akimoto

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A team of Joker Racer, a project by Tokyo-based Jokerworks Corp. to make remote control cars (and possibly real cars) controlled over the internet to provide virtual-but-real driving experience by using on-car linux and web cam, is visiting the Silicon Valley for their demonstration trip including O'Reilly Where 2.0 and Ignite + Launch Pad.

Yoski Akamatsu, a project leader of the Joker Racer, is known by his web company SideFeed Inc. and its RSS feed related services [J], some of which are also provided in English.

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Joker Racer is also presented at the last Tokyo2point0 in bilingual (Japanese/English).

Author Information  @akky(Akky AKIMOTO) is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for Japan Times, does consultation for foreign companies interested in entering Japanese web market.

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