The Nissan Formula E Team has replaced its previous warp and blend system with Scalable Display Technologies — bringing more accurate, reliable calibration to the team's 180-degree three-projector driving simulator used by drivers Oliver Rowland and Sacha Fenestraz.
The Nissan Formula E Team has integrated Scalable Display Technologies into its professional driving simulator, replacing a previous warp and blend system that had proven unreliable and time-consuming. The upgrade delivers more accurate, consistent calibration across the team's 180-degree three-projector simulator — a critical training tool for drivers Oliver Rowland and Sacha Fenestraz.
Formula E, officially the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, is the world's first single-seater motorsport championship for electric race cars. Nissan entered Formula E in Season 5 in 2018, becoming the first and only Japanese manufacturer in the series, and took full ownership of the team in 2022.
Driving simulators are essential for Formula E teams. Real-world track data collected from sensors, race cars, and laser scanning is fed into the simulator to create training exercises that are precise and repeatable. Drivers can log laps on any circuit in the world year-round — refining braking points, corner approach, and muscle memory ahead of race day.
"As a race team operating in the FIA Formula E World Championship, we use a driving simulator to train our drivers and to prepare the team for each race," said Dorian Boisdron, Director of the Nissan Formula E Team. "The real-world tracks are scanned with lasers and added into the simulation software within an inch of perfect accuracy. We need to create a solution with pristine imagery to give our drivers an accurate representation of what they would normally see from a racecar — to understand the sensation of speed, position on track, braking points and other dynamics."
The team's simulator uses three projectors to create a 180-degree wraparound image. Multiple PCs — one per projector — drive rendering performance for each channel. A key technical requirement was the ability to treat these separate systems as a single consistent display — something Scalable's architecture handles natively.
"We selected Scalable Display Technologies to replace our old warp and blend technology system," said Boisdron. "Our previous system was not robust and was time-consuming. Particularly for this application, the visuals must be flawless. We required a solution that is not only easy-to-use, but reliable and accurate."
Scalable's camera-based calibration automatically converges the three projector outputs into a seamless 180-degree image, and adapts to the team's system architecture and curved screen geometry without compromise.
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