There are a lot of ways you can enjoy racing games, and track time attacks is one of them. Most titles offer a ghost facility which basically lets you race against yourself, in the quest to beat your best time – now, with a system called GhostDash, you will be able have the feature when real-life racing too.

GhostDash is the work of a company called High Rise Garage which already has a prototype of the system up and running. The hardware backing it up is reportedly done and all that’s left to do before it’s fully completed is to work on the software and interface some more.

It relies on a very big 15-inch head-up display (HUD) that sits right in the middle of the driver’s field of view. It’s almost perfectly translucent (98 percent, to be precise), so it doesn’t block any part of it.

It projects and overlays a ghost of a previous drive onto the screen and you can race against it.

The project has been in the works “for over a year,” but now it’s been moved to Kickstarter phase in order to raise money to initiate the first production run.

We’re curious to see just how well this works, and currently have some reservations about it, but it does herald the arrival of VR-augmented real racing. When this tech will be integrated into the glass, like Land Rover already has, then we’ll get really excited.

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