Anki Drive is the new generation of remote control car racing. A lot of Gen X-ers grew up with remote control cars, helicopters and planes being top-of-the-line in toy technology, but we are a long ways into the future from those days. Enter Anki Drive, a race car gaming combo which brings together mobile gaming, bleeding edge wireless technology, and robotics into one awesome mashup. Even better, it’s coming to Android really soon.
Anki Drive racing was exclusive to iOS devices for the longest time now, but the manufacturers and the brains behind the racing game had to bring it over to Android at some point in time – and that time is in October, as announced on the Anki Drive website by Hanns Tappeiner, co-founder of Anki Drive. He specifically mentioned that support was coming to “select Samsung devices”, so we’ll just have to wait which those would be.
What is Anki Drive? Well, that’s kind of complicated to explain in one go – but it basically is your good old remote control racing with some mobile gaming aspects. Think of the power-ups you got when playing Mario Kart on your Nintendo 64 and you will have an idea of what we’re talking about. Also, you can upgrade your cars via the mobile app, and the car “grows” into maturity as you get better and win more races, collecting more upgrade points. That’s basically it, but let this Tech Crunch hands-on video show you more.
From the looks of it, it does seem a bit exciting – although you have to purchase the starter kit to start racing Anki Drive cars. We’re assuming that support will come to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5, and maybe the Galaxy Note 3 and Note 4. These are all speculations at this point, so let’s wait for October to roll in and Anki Drive to make the official announcements.
SOURCE: Anki Drive, video from Tech Crunch