Press Coverage

iOpener in science show on German TV

Monday, March 22, 2010

The most established German speaking science channel, 3Sat, aired a report on the latest iOpener Enabled live race. As part of a popular science and technology show, it was broadcasted to TV viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Please click here to watch the clip (in German).

“In between dreams and reality”

Monday, March 22, 2010

The Belgian car-magazine "Autowereld" published a two page article of the iOpener Enabled race held on February 10th, 2010 , in which 3 FIA GT drivers raced in Dunlop Mini Cooper S against the virtual beta testers. Read  here the full article (in Dutch).

TV audience gets a taste of iOpener Enabled

Monday, March 15, 2010

Two of the largest commercial TV Channels of the Benelux region have reported on a live iOpener Enabled race event at the Circuit of Zolder.
In the Netherlands a total of 1,2 million viewers of the prime-time evening news on Dutch TV channel RTL4 watched the iOpener Enabled race action. They saw how gamers on the track and online were competing live in real-time against FIA GT and Le Mans driver Xavier Maasen.  Click here to view the clip (in Dutch).  Also the national Belgian TV channel of VTM addressed over 800,000 viewers and has made it possible to watch their news report online. Please click here to watch it (in Dutch).

iOpener and WRC on Autosport.com

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

One of the world's most popular motorsport magazines has published an article on the cooperation between iOpener and WRC. It underlines WRC's intention to re-shape the motorsport industry as a leader in implementing interactive technologies with the help of the iOpener Enabled feature. This press release was also covered by several global news channels from both the gaming and autosport industry. Click here to read the Autosport article.

iOpener Enabled: "Most interesting development"

Friday, December 18, 2009

The popular online Simrace magazine "AutoSimSport" announced in its latest edition that the current iOpener Enabled game "RTR-The Real-time Racing game" is a hot candidate for revolutionising the world of Simracing being "the most interesting development in sim-racing for quite some time". Click here to read the full article.

Major German Motorsport Webzine talks iOpener Enabled

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

iOpener CEO Andy Lürling was asked by Motorsport-Magazine, a leading German online motorsports site, to answer questions for the German speaking motorsports community. It is mentioned how past challenges were taken as well as what the possibilities are  for future endurance races such as 24h of Le Mans. To read the entire interview (in German) please click here.

Interview in Professional Motorsport Circuit

Friday, November 20, 2009

In the special edition for Circuits of motorsport industry magazine "Professional Motorsport World" an interview with iOpener's CEO Andy Lürling has been published. Here he gives an overview of the iOpener Enabled product benefits and revenue potential for the race industry, with a focus on circuits which he also presented as an invited guest speaker at the Motorsports WorldExpo in Cologne in October 2009. Read the full interview here.

News broker Bloomberg reports on iOpener Enabled

Thursday, October 08, 2009

On the day of the first live race with public beta testers, the news agency Bloomberg published a news article on the iOpener technology and the racing at Zolder. They talk about the great potential of the iOpener Enabled technology and about the running beta test which successfully took place at Zolder racetrack and in many homes around the world. Click here to read more.

Dutch Lifestyle Webzine reports about iOpener

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Premium Dutch online lifestyle webzine "Idealize" has published an article on iOpener.  Here they talk about their recent experience with the iOpener team at race track Zolder. Click here to read the full article. A video-clip showing an interview with iOpener CEO Andy Lürling, giving a little more insight of what gamers can expect of the beta-phase starting on October 1st can be viewed here.

Upcoming Beta test triggers interview in German SimRace Magazine

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Only a few weeks before the start of the beta test on October 1st, Andy Lürling, CEO of iOpener, was asked to give an interview to one of the leading SimRacer magazines of Germany. "Rueckspiegel", published by Virtual Racing e.V.,  addresses many questions which have arisen at the basis of the simrace community.
The interview successfully provides a comprehensive knowledge basis for understanding what is behind iOpener Enabled. Click here to take a look at the interview (German).

Simracing magazine publishes update on iOpener

Friday, August 07, 2009

For the second time in one year, the Simracing magazine "AutoSimSport" reports about iOpener. Described as "one of the biggest technological leaps […] seen in gaming", the continuous progress of the past 12 months is elaborated on in an interview with iOpener CEO Andy Lürling, while also its editor goes as far as predicting  that iOpener Enabled is "soon to become a household phrase". Click here to read the full report

START Autosport Magazine talks to iOpener CEO

Friday, July 03, 2009

In an interview given to "Start", Andy Lürling, CEO of iOpener, draws up a picture of how vast the area for applying iOpener Enabled to motorsports is. He points out that not only fans and racing teams are being targeted, but even more so it shall create a whole new dynamism for everyone involved with racing. Read here his full interview (in Dutch) along with some nice shots of a day at the track.

iOpener Enabled on International Radio Shows

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Cologne/Amsterdam. Recently several European radio stations have reported about iOpener Enabled on their shows. Two of the most popular Dutch radio stations, Radio 538 and 3FM,  talked enthusiastically about this new gaming innovation and broadcasted (live) interviews in their prime time shows. Also the most established German nationwide radio station "Deutschlandfunk" aired a full report about the revolutionary dimension of iOpener Enabled along with interviews of CEO Andy Lürling and Technical Engineer Ivo op het Veld. Listen here to the audio-clips: Radio 538 , Radio 3FM , Deutschlandfunk

Popular Dutch Magazine has high hopes for Andy Lürling (CEO iOpener)

Monday, May 25, 2009

The April edition of the popular Dutch Magazine "Revu" reports in brief about iOpener's CEO Andy Lürling. The article, published in the "scouted" section, deals with his job as a game developer as well as the new innovative gaming approach of iOpener Enabled. Click here to read the article (in dutch)

Car Magazine reports about iOpener

Monday, May 25, 2009

The Dutch high-end tuning magazine  "Automaxx"  announces  in its "Hot News" section: Race against the real drivers! Click here to read the article (in dutch)

Metro Newspaper: Experts predict iOpener Enabled to be of groundbreaking impact

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

A two page article was published in today's Dutch edition of the Metro Newspaper, presenting iOpener's product and its application. The first game which features the product is the Real-time Racing Portal, to be followed by other games in 2010.
The article includes a panel of experts, who all agree on the vast future potential of real-life gaming as well as a short overview, showing iOpener's CEO, Andy Lürling, worldwide efforts in spreading the new revolution in gaming. Click here to read the Article (in Dutch).

Autosimsport Magazine reports about iOpener

Friday, August 22, 2008

The premiere online magazine dedicated to the sport of Simulated Racing, Autosimsport requested iOpener CEO, Andy Lürling, to cooperate on an interview, to tell about the immersive new technology which makes it possible to play in real-time against the pro's from behind your (game) computer. Today the interview is published in the online magazine. Click here to read the article.

iOpener showcased in CNN's 'Untold Stories'

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

In the popular CNN program 'Untold Stories' CNN dedicated a topic to the European Satellite navigation system 'Galileo'. iOpener was asked to participate to showcase it's product known under the name 'Real-time Games' as a promising Galileo application. Click here to view the CNN program

iOpener's innovative feature discussed on Cnet.com

Monday, June 16, 2008

With over a million visitors a month, Cnet (www.cnet.com) is one of the largest tech-related podcasts on the globe. iOpener's technology was discussed in one of the podcasts. Click here to hear part of the podcast.

BBC News reports about iOpener’s activities

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The global highly appreciated news channel of BBC recognized in iOpener's technology a highly innovative and promising product for the games industry and asked iOpener CEO, Andy Lürling, to cooperate on an interview. Click here to read the article.
Also the Spanish online games magazine '20 Minutes' published an article about iOpener's innovative technology.

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