Video games helped me when it came to getting my HGV licence. I learnt how to reverse on Euro Truck Simulator2 and putting it into practice when training for my real life licence really helped
I'm a pilot, video games can 100% help with real-world skills, probably not if it's GTA, but Microsoft flight sim, especially vatsim can and will help you if you take it seriously
Well the real pilots are trained in simulations that are very similar to videogames. Games are typically more focused on entertainment than ironing out specific skills - yes - but some of them can be used for training - just possibly a little less convenient one. Some even include tutorials. Of course you do need actual training on things like how to start a plane safely, and how to talk to dispatch etc but games can be useful for the actual flying part of it.
@@jwhite5008 actual sims are much more useful than you on your home computer, but you do need to pay for them, and typically also the time of the instructor. Microsoft flight sim will help you with your flows, and to keep practicing procedures, like lost procedures, entering the circuit, forced or precautionary landings, and all the ifr shenanigans it can not replace time in the cockpit, or time in a certified simulator, but as a supplement it is definitely worth your time
Well that's the thing, where's the line between sim and video game. The tool they used in the beginning also has a version where it projects a virtual golf course, but does that cross the line as a tool Adam would use in his "real" training or is it still a videogame
I still can't wrap my head around the fact this was made +10 years ago. Can you imagine what they could do with modern technology? Drones, 3D printers, 4K slow motion cameras and other recording gizmos?
Yeah, it also makes you really appreciate some of the great camera work in a lot of the episodes as they where still lugging around pretty big set ups.
I'm a security officer. Applying what I know to video games make me better at those games, and in turn practicing my skills in games improves them in real life.
@@Legion563 they actually do help! The venn diagram of skillsets of criminals and security officers overlaps like a stack of pancakes. In Hitman games, you learn to identify weaknesses in security and you learn to notice what details would suggest something isn't as it should be. Any game that has ranged weapons and where you can't take a lot of hits will teach you how to clear your corners and take advantage of cover, both when under fire and beforehand so you don't get noticed. Games can also help improve reflexes, problem solving, and analytical skills.
Jimmy Broadbent. He is a youtube SimRacer. He has now raced professionally for 2 different teams and over a dozen races. Some of which he has won and appeared on a podium. His entire racing experience before Praga was exclusively online.
His entire racing experience, yes; but, I presume he'd driven a car before. I think the main thing is that virtual experiences for almost all sports have improved dramatically since this was made. I'm guessing that by now there's probably a golf app or game that actually makes a difference. It would be interesting to see this one tested (see what I did there, Adam Savage fans) again.
There's also a first person shooter gamer who was tested with real guns, he'd never held or fired a real gun before ;but his skill carried over from the video game. The video is on UA-cam ;but I can't remember who the guy was or the video name.
It stands to reason that video games can convey only those real skills that are actually used in the game. Since golf games don't make you line up your shot, you're not holding a golf club etc, it's a bad training tool for golf. Even the game they played is a motion capture golf game but there is no weight to the club, no length to it, and the game is probably very forgiving about the aim. But the military uses video games to teach tactics and strategy which are actually skills you use during gaming.
@GaijinGamerGirlBut how does this work considering VR doesn't give you real gun weight, recoil, etc? Aren't those important to learn how to shoot a particular gun?
@@gownerjones you can definetly fake that vr gun controllers are a thing weight is easy and diffrent types of fake recoil exists but that isn't the only thing you need to learn
@GaijinGamerGirl Again, I asked you a question out of curiosity because you seem knowledgeable and this is how you respond? That's honestly pretty sad.
@@gownerjones no worries vr is still pretty niche compared to the rest of the industry so its natural a lot of people won't know that much about things within it
I think the woman in the grenade clip having her arm cramp is very likely, because you don't know how little of a grip is too little, and when it's your life and your kids' lives on the line, you're going to hang on with everything you've got. Adam might have some fear of something happening, but he knows it's not going to kill him, so he's not holding on with white-knuckle fear. But yes, he proved very handily you could hold onto that grenade for two hours like the woman did.
Also the fact that holding is one thing. When you have a cramp it is hard to keep holding the muscles tight. Same as trying to get up fast if your legs are numb
I don't know.. And I do realize how TV programs are done in the States, but it seems like Jamie is being overly scripted in to saying and doing stuff that are out of place half the time. I kinda liked the grumpy old version better. Seemed more like himself.
There was an incident where gamers from the Nissan GT Academy, who became skilled in driving through playing Gran Turismo, were banned from the British GT Championship. The reason given was that these gamers-turned-drivers were too fast and skilled, blurring the lines between amateur and professional racers.
Proffessional rally drivers such as Petter and Oliver Solberg (father and Son) both winners of WRC uses rally simulator games to learn a specific stage and be faster around corners before they go to the real competition
The grenade myth? Don't get me wrong I love this show, always have, which is why I am rewatching them for like the 4th or 5th time, but Adam sitting in that little room wondering what Jamie's trap might be ....? Oh, I don't know, maybe it has something to do with that tube sticking out of the wall to his right filled with green paint that we can see in nearly every shot, LOL :D
Been playing golf for around 40 years now and have taken friends who never played a day in their lives and all of them were better than Adam and Jamie here. I wondered why, but then it made sense. If they f**ked around on the first test they literally could only get better, lol :)
Video games is probably my main source of learning English in my youth. I would also say the different puzzles in games stimulate a brain under development. I also learned a bit about how to fire a rifle and disassemble a assault rifle. As proven when I without training beat my superior officer in disassembling and assembling a HK416 for the first time without training.
More proper test in the golf section would have been that Jamie been taught by the pro and Adam practiced with the game, since it's been obvious that Adam was always better in tests where motor skills were needed. Jamie's improvement could have been even more astounding.
A lot of people quickly judging a show created 10+ years ago when the tech/simulation wasn't as advanced as it is now, also conducting a test on one form of sports really wasn't a conclusive test, im sure there are some sports that even today wouldn't give you an edge if you had no experience by using video games such as track and field, swimming, rugby, football ect, the only sport that has really given an ability to take what you've learnt from a game/sim is racing sims especially if the person learning has the right setup (wheel, peddles, gear shift).
Rockstar has been scientifically proven to help people learn guitar Watch the Grand Turisimo film. And playing Wii Sports bowling and golf with the Wii Motion Plus controller helped me get better at real golf on the golfing range and actual bowling.
For fast firing a handgun place your finger sideways so it doesn't bend around trigger. Thats what i learned from a guy who was in serbian special forces. Dude fired handgun like machinegun.
If you shoot one less bullet than you have in your magazine, it can make your reload faster because you don't have to re-cock your firearm. For instance, if you put a 10 round pistol mag into a pistol and rack the slide, you now have 9 rounds in your magazine, and one in your chamber. If you shoot 9 rounds, you have nothing in your magazine, but still one in the chamber. That means if you drop that magazine after shooting 9 rounds and put in another 10 round magazine, you technically have 11 bullets in the gun, and can continue to shoot because that last bullet in the chamber from the old magazine will fire and re-rack the slide for you, emptying the chamber of the case of the previous cartridge and loading in a new cartridge from the fresh magazine. If you need to shoot fast and reload faster, this is the way,
"I know enough about golf to know you need to counter slope and momentum" Id hope that even without seeing golf, one would understand a ball will roll to the lower point of a slope 😅
Definitely agree with Jamie, golf should be called "sticks and balls." Also, football should be called "arm ball" and hockey should be called "goalie."
Fear and g forces. That's the main difference. IRL your main feedback comes from the seat of your pants, in sim it's visual cues. That said people with sim experience can transfer their skills a lot quicker than someone being taught.
@@nicholascrow8133 Sim Racing heavily relies on force feedback and not so much on visual cues and depending on ones budget one can get force feedback all around the sim rig from the pedals to the seat.
@@DrEckigI'm well aware of this, I have a decent sim rig and actively race. Motion doesn't simulate sustained g's. There is still a delta between relying on your eyes vs feeling the g's move. Driver61 covers this quite a lot as a main factor when discussing transitioning from rig to irl. To be clear, I'm not saying that sim racing doesn't help, quite the opposite, just elaborating on the nuances between the two styles of driving feedback
Golf was a terible game to pick for this experiment, the skills just don't translate. Racing games can help you learn the more fine intricacies of driving, like grip, weight shifting, ect. Flight sims can help you learn how planes function and fly. Even more realistic shooters can teach you how to say fire a sniper from a long range and you have to compensate for windage and dropoff. Golf was just a wild pick, only a crazy high end golf sim where you're actually hitting a ball would have helped here.
well if you take a real racing or flight cabinet with all the bells and whistles then its not really a video game anymore. my main gripe here is that the other got professional tutoring while other uses games, which is against the idea of the myth. of course if i get real shooting lessons or fighting lessons from someone my progress is faster than someone playing games. but the whole point is that if ive played battlefield for a year or whatever and then go exercise with a guy who has no experience with guns at all ill probably do better than him. if i play for 5 years then the gap is bigger. but how much better is the question. so adam should have spent his time sitting on a sofa reading tom clancy or whatever. then when they get back on the green jamie would have had more idea about the clubs, the wind, the distances at least so he would have done smarter choices even if his physical skills arent up there yet. i can also say that fighting games have helped me in coming up with moves and movement. and even if i dont have proper racing rig at least i know so many tracks of the world i can recite them even in sleep.
i think piano is the best example. everyone gets a teacher if they can because its the superior option, but if you have to choose between a game or just reading and smashing keys, games provide pretty superior option
A golf game can teach you the course layout but it can’t teach you to swing a club. In a similar way, a driving game could teach you the layout of a circuit and the appropriate lines to take.
Driving with a good setup I think is the only major mechanical skill that will translate, I remember that when I got GT5 on PS3 I was also taking my license, aside from the cluth that my DFGT didn't have, I basically used what I learned in the game IRL in driving school.
This episode was like a fad test because motion control games was literally a fad, games with more traditional controls like Flying Simulators are still playable and they are really effective for learning.
Sim racing conveys to real life. Plenty of exemples available of sim racers that became real life racers. Just to name a few: Jimmy broadbent, Steve brown, some nascar drivers....
There are certain games which improves real world skills, one example is the pro sim drift racer who was invited to drift a top drift racers car for the sole purpose of finding out if skills were transferable which it turns out they are
Would've been more analogous to have Kari or some other woman hold the grenade, too. Adam had only a little trouble, but a woman's small hands and lower muscle density might have confirmed that myth for women, before Adam used clothing to tie the spoon shut
Both Jamie and Adam were doing the same mistake (or so it seems): you don't have to completely release the trigger before shooting again. That's what professional shooter did, and that's why his fire rate was much faster. So many episodes with guns and they didn't know about trigger reset?
And the Mythbusters are wrong....... again. You actually CAN become better doing stuff from playing a game. This short little test they did here is just ridiculous and actually a little bit pathetic coming from scientists.
video game is more of a practice what you already know than learning from scratch... that is generally what pilot, police and nuclear reactor operator do... plus it's also matter what video game used as a practice, almost none of the video game that professional uses to practice is available to the public... i think the only one that do, is microsoft flight simulator.
One "video game" type that evolved into simulator, is Driving & Racing games. And those really can train people into a Pro in real life. Because that count as Simulator not a game anymore.
I recently had a go in a fully immersive set up that cost the guy about $60K all in. It had a car interior, the seat swung about on gyros, the steering wheel feedback was all reality based etc. etc... It was absolutely nothing like driving a real car on a track in away way shape or form. It was actually a lot less fun than I was expecting. There is no way you can train someone that's an amateur into a "pro" on any simulator, it's simply not happening...
You are PROUD for America because they kept him alive. Even if he wasn’t, most are hit with a CRAZY bill if they don’t have insurance!! Sometimes, even when they do. What a twisted view!
It was like the producers told him to go out of his way to be stupid. I'm pretty sure with his engineering background he could figure out when to use a driver and when to use an iron.
3 situations that I think video games could absolutly improve your real world performance all have very physical elements. and they are all called simulators rather than games. Racing sims, where you have a force feedback wheel, pedals all that. Flight sims, again with force feedback yoke or stick, and a commercial VR welding simulator. they all need a little bit more realistic hardware than just a PlayStation, but are proven to provide real world skills in a virtual environment. I'm unsurprised at the result, golf is a very physical nuanced game, you can feel the difference between swings if its good and bad, and Jamie just wasnt getting that. the game controller does not replicate that at all. having no heft, you could see he almost never followed through, because he wasnt swinging a lump of steel around. Im in no way a good golfer, but ive played a few proper games, and a messed around with golf skills quite a bit. we used to clear out paddocks from a weed called pig-melons, which grow a disgusting smelling, inedible melon about softball sized when ripe. but take a golf club out and smack all the melons when they are golfball sized, before the seeds can mature. very labour intensive, but my dad was pretty big brain, send a few 13yo lads out and make a competition of it. the game was to splatter melon chunks over your mates. we were disgusting afterwards, but we all learnt pretty good powerful and accurate swings out of it. after 2 years of that, we'd eliminated 90% of the weeds, to the point it wasnt much of a sport any more. Then we discovered there are such things as floating golf balls. so we set up a driving range on the beach, with a ski boat as a retriever. I totally understand how dogs feel chasing balls, you didnt go until the THWACK of the ball and then race out as fast as possible to retrieve the ball. but you had to moderate your wake and speed so you could actually pick it up. not only did it greatly improve my drive, but also my boat handling. which you would never get towing a skier, approaching a dock, fishing, etc. video games are fun, but messing about with your mates playing weird invented games is better. you just cant really do that on a Wednesday night after work on your couch
the grenade one is still not realistic imho... the pressure and fear of a actual grenade exploding in your hands would make you grasp it with full force the whole time. pretty sure of it. and disabling it with something is quite the gamble not many would be willing to risk... all it needs is one slip and you're DEAD... not dirty with paint but actually DEAD. I think this Myth is not something you can just test like this
Why would you hold the grenade and not tie something around it? Surely cannot be that hard, but I guess if it's live you're not in a good place for a bit of trial and error.
Video games helped me when it came to getting my HGV licence. I learnt how to reverse on Euro Truck Simulator2 and putting it into practice when training for my real life licence really helped
Now that you mention it, I've learned how clutch and gear shifting works in driving games.
I love Adam's golfing clothes. This brought a smile to my face this morning. I can't golf to save my life.
3:04 - this is actually hilarious, well done who ever came up with the idea to film the ball in the air like this :D
Gaming taught me English and thanks to that I can watch shows like Mythbusters. :D
Same here bro!
same hahah
It got me interested in learning English as well.
Same
"Eliminate all hostiles" was one of the first phrases I learned :p
Same
I'm a pilot, video games can 100% help with real-world skills, probably not if it's GTA, but Microsoft flight sim, especially vatsim can and will help you if you take it seriously
Gta give you a lot of insights on business and management :)
Well the real pilots are trained in simulations that are very similar to videogames.
Games are typically more focused on entertainment than ironing out specific skills - yes - but some of them can be used for training - just possibly a little less convenient one. Some even include tutorials.
Of course you do need actual training on things like how to start a plane safely, and how to talk to dispatch etc but games can be useful for the actual flying part of it.
@@jwhite5008 actual sims are much more useful than you on your home computer, but you do need to pay for them, and typically also the time of the instructor. Microsoft flight sim will help you with your flows, and to keep practicing procedures, like lost procedures, entering the circuit, forced or precautionary landings, and all the ifr shenanigans it can not replace time in the cockpit, or time in a certified simulator, but as a supplement it is definitely worth your time
Well that's the thing, where's the line between sim and video game.
The tool they used in the beginning also has a version where it projects a virtual golf course, but does that cross the line as a tool Adam would use in his "real" training or is it still a videogame
I took a flying lesson and 10 minutes in the instructor guessed that I had sim experience
I still can't wrap my head around the fact this was made +10 years ago. Can you imagine what they could do with modern technology? Drones, 3D printers, 4K slow motion cameras and other recording gizmos?
I know its sadness..
Do you have any idea how long flight sims have been used to train pilots? Depending on your deffiniton - somewhere between 1929 and 1934!
Yeah, it also makes you really appreciate some of the great camera work in a lot of the episodes as they where still lugging around pretty big set ups.
They used a drone in the golf course shots.
Damn that's cool to think about. Makes me wonder what they could do with 3D imagery scanning like making a clay prototype and bringing it to life
I'm a security officer. Applying what I know to video games make me better at those games, and in turn practicing my skills in games improves them in real life.
I suppose the Hitman games could be used as a good security guards 'what not to do' training aid lol!
@@Legion563 they actually do help! The venn diagram of skillsets of criminals and security officers overlaps like a stack of pancakes. In Hitman games, you learn to identify weaknesses in security and you learn to notice what details would suggest something isn't as it should be.
Any game that has ranged weapons and where you can't take a lot of hits will teach you how to clear your corners and take advantage of cover, both when under fire and beforehand so you don't get noticed.
Games can also help improve reflexes, problem solving, and analytical skills.
Jimmy Broadbent. He is a youtube SimRacer. He has now raced professionally for 2 different teams and over a dozen races. Some of which he has won and appeared on a podium.
His entire racing experience before Praga was exclusively online.
His entire racing experience, yes; but, I presume he'd driven a car before. I think the main thing is that virtual experiences for almost all sports have improved dramatically since this was made. I'm guessing that by now there's probably a golf app or game that actually makes a difference. It would be interesting to see this one tested (see what I did there, Adam Savage fans) again.
There's also a first person shooter gamer who was tested with real guns, he'd never held or fired a real gun before ;but his skill carried over from the video game. The video is on UA-cam ;but I can't remember who the guy was or the video name.
I was looking for this comment. Another terrible conclusion by the mythbusters.
The recent movie Gran Turismo is purely based off the facts that gamers who raced on Gran Turismo went on to race in real life and to be successful.
2021 Drift Masters Virtual Championship champion Rhys Tatterson went from sim drifting into a real 900hp nissan and aced it!
4:54 I love that Jamies the same way I would if I ever get to drive one of these things: the MarioKart way.
Jamie's golf swing was hurting my soul 😆 so terrible!!
It stands to reason that video games can convey only those real skills that are actually used in the game. Since golf games don't make you line up your shot, you're not holding a golf club etc, it's a bad training tool for golf. Even the game they played is a motion capture golf game but there is no weight to the club, no length to it, and the game is probably very forgiving about the aim.
But the military uses video games to teach tactics and strategy which are actually skills you use during gaming.
@GaijinGamerGirlBut how does this work considering VR doesn't give you real gun weight, recoil, etc? Aren't those important to learn how to shoot a particular gun?
@@gownerjones you can definetly fake that vr gun controllers are a thing weight is easy and diffrent types of fake recoil exists
but that isn't the only thing you need to learn
@GaijinGamerGirl Again, I asked you a question out of curiosity because you seem knowledgeable and this is how you respond? That's honestly pretty sad.
@@blessedbow720 Thank you for explaining and not insulting me for no reason. I appreciate you!
@@gownerjones no worries vr is still pretty niche compared to the rest of the industry so its natural a lot of people won't know that much about things within it
I think the woman in the grenade clip having her arm cramp is very likely, because you don't know how little of a grip is too little, and when it's your life and your kids' lives on the line, you're going to hang on with everything you've got. Adam might have some fear of something happening, but he knows it's not going to kill him, so he's not holding on with white-knuckle fear. But yes, he proved very handily you could hold onto that grenade for two hours like the woman did.
Agreed, but also she could have switched hands or tied up the grenade with something. They got this one right.
and also it was a woman 🤷♀️ smaller muscles
Also the fact that holding is one thing. When you have a cramp it is hard to keep holding the muscles tight.
Same as trying to get up fast if your legs are numb
S9 leaves me torn - miss the Trio of Terror - however Jaime really comes out his shell these episodes, it’s fun to see him more animated!
This is season 13, not 9 like in the title. Weird.
I don't know.. And I do realize how TV programs are done in the States, but it seems like Jamie is being overly scripted in to saying and doing stuff that are out of place half the time. I kinda liked the grumpy old version better. Seemed more like himself.
I can die happy knowing I can golf better than Adam and Jaime combined 🤣🤣🤣
As of now, 2024, my skills with racing simulation (ACC with a basic Fanatec setup) help me a lot in driving irl.
100% true, only thing it does not help with though is having the balls to take a corner at 60mph 🤣
There was an incident where gamers from the Nissan GT Academy, who became skilled in driving through playing Gran Turismo, were banned from the British GT Championship. The reason given was that these gamers-turned-drivers were too fast and skilled, blurring the lines between amateur and professional racers.
@@Luzarioth Banned for being TOO good? That's ridiculous.
Proffessional rally drivers such as Petter and Oliver Solberg (father and Son) both winners of WRC uses rally simulator games to learn a specific stage and be faster around corners before they go to the real competition
That basic instinct joke was pure genius
Spike strips have plastic sleeves that do the same job. Once inserted by a car running over the spike strip, it allows the wheel to deflate
The grenade myth? Don't get me wrong I love this show, always have, which is why I am rewatching them for like the 4th or 5th time, but Adam sitting in that little room wondering what Jamie's trap might be ....? Oh, I don't know, maybe it has something to do with that tube sticking out of the wall to his right filled with green paint that we can see in nearly every shot, LOL :D
Yeah, I agree, that part was straight up cringe
Fancy pants 😂 Oh Jamie. Heck I wish I could play Pebble Beach. But I fear most of my clubs would be broken before the third tee
21:27 now you take the scarf and tie it around the grenade lol.
41:34 ???? that deer, just casually chilling in the background in the shade of the smal tree.... lmao
Been playing golf for around 40 years now and have taken friends who never played a day in their lives and all of them were better than Adam and Jamie here. I wondered why, but then it made sense. If they f**ked around on the first test they literally could only get better, lol :)
“That’s one” 😂 My uncle and I always say that to each other when we’re on the course
Pool/snooker/billiards games like virtual pool 3/4 will definitely help you seeing the right angles.
All I am thinking is keep your front arm straight!! 🤣
I don't think I've ever seen this season! Let alone the opening!
jamies laugh at 47:05 omg
Got me.
It has been proven that driving SIMS can turn complete novices into real world race drivers.
Video games is probably my main source of learning English in my youth. I would also say the different puzzles in games stimulate a brain under development. I also learned a bit about how to fire a rifle and disassemble a assault rifle. As proven when I without training beat my superior officer in disassembling and assembling a HK416 for the first time without training.
13:44 i dont play sports game but i do, tiger woods PGA, you can put a huge spin on the ball and make it skid across the field slightly
More proper test in the golf section would have been that Jamie been taught by the pro and Adam practiced with the game, since it's been obvious that Adam was always better in tests where motor skills were needed. Jamie's improvement could have been even more astounding.
I like this intro. Except soldering SMDs at 1:12. Or that is just me? :D
Thanks its great
I love how they throw shade on the absurdity that is GOLF
A lot of people quickly judging a show created 10+ years ago when the tech/simulation wasn't as advanced as it is now, also conducting a test on one form of sports really wasn't a conclusive test, im sure there are some sports that even today wouldn't give you an edge if you had no experience by using video games such as track and field, swimming, rugby, football ect, the only sport that has really given an ability to take what you've learnt from a game/sim is racing sims especially if the person learning has the right setup (wheel, peddles, gear shift).
well done adam, better at drifting and Golf!!!
18:00 Jamie wins a trophy haha
Rockstar has been scientifically proven to help people learn guitar
Watch the Grand Turisimo film.
And playing Wii Sports bowling and golf with the Wii Motion Plus controller helped me get better at real golf on the golfing range and actual bowling.
You mean Rocksmith, right? That's kinda cheating, since it's more of an instructional program which makes you play a real guitar than just a game.
Wow - those lessons at Pebble Beach cost a mere $500 per hour...
Well, don't mess with Travis. 😳
For fast firing a handgun place your finger sideways so it doesn't bend around trigger. Thats what i learned from a guy who was in serbian special forces. Dude fired handgun like machinegun.
If you shoot one less bullet than you have in your magazine, it can make your reload faster because you don't have to re-cock your firearm.
For instance, if you put a 10 round pistol mag into a pistol and rack the slide, you now have 9 rounds in your magazine, and one in your chamber. If you shoot 9 rounds, you have nothing in your magazine, but still one in the chamber. That means if you drop that magazine after shooting 9 rounds and put in another 10 round magazine, you technically have 11 bullets in the gun, and can continue to shoot because that last bullet in the chamber from the old magazine will fire and re-rack the slide for you, emptying the chamber of the case of the previous cartridge and loading in a new cartridge from the fresh magazine.
If you need to shoot fast and reload faster, this is the way,
The myth today would be how much you can learn on UA-cam.
Given that even the mythbusters are on UA-cam now. A LOT.
"I know enough about golf to know you need to counter slope and momentum"
Id hope that even without seeing golf, one would understand a ball will roll to the lower point of a slope 😅
Definitely agree with Jamie, golf should be called "sticks and balls." Also, football should be called "arm ball" and hockey should be called "goalie."
the basic instinct joke 😂🤣
Driving sims with a proper setup 100% translates.. Except for the brown pants factor!
Fear and g forces. That's the main difference. IRL your main feedback comes from the seat of your pants, in sim it's visual cues. That said people with sim experience can transfer their skills a lot quicker than someone being taught.
@@nicholascrow8133 Sim Racing heavily relies on force feedback and not so much on visual cues and depending on ones budget one can get force feedback all around the sim rig from the pedals to the seat.
@@DrEckigI'm well aware of this, I have a decent sim rig and actively race. Motion doesn't simulate sustained g's. There is still a delta between relying on your eyes vs feeling the g's move.
Driver61 covers this quite a lot as a main factor when discussing transitioning from rig to irl.
To be clear, I'm not saying that sim racing doesn't help, quite the opposite, just elaborating on the nuances between the two styles of driving feedback
Golf was a terible game to pick for this experiment, the skills just don't translate. Racing games can help you learn the more fine intricacies of driving, like grip, weight shifting, ect. Flight sims can help you learn how planes function and fly. Even more realistic shooters can teach you how to say fire a sniper from a long range and you have to compensate for windage and dropoff. Golf was just a wild pick, only a crazy high end golf sim where you're actually hitting a ball would have helped here.
I was thinking the same possibly the worse choice for games.. Ideally some form of simulator would be most suitable maybe a flight simulator
well if you take a real racing or flight cabinet with all the bells and whistles then its not really a video game anymore.
my main gripe here is that the other got professional tutoring while other uses games, which is against the idea of the myth. of course if i get real shooting lessons or fighting lessons from someone my progress is faster than someone playing games. but the whole point is that if ive played battlefield for a year or whatever and then go exercise with a guy who has no experience with guns at all ill probably do better than him. if i play for 5 years then the gap is bigger. but how much better is the question. so adam should have spent his time sitting on a sofa reading tom clancy or whatever. then when they get back on the green jamie would have had more idea about the clubs, the wind, the distances at least so he would have done smarter choices even if his physical skills arent up there yet.
i can also say that fighting games have helped me in coming up with moves and movement. and even if i dont have proper racing rig at least i know so many tracks of the world i can recite them even in sleep.
i think piano is the best example. everyone gets a teacher if they can because its the superior option, but if you have to choose between a game or just reading and smashing keys, games provide pretty superior option
imagine guy whose name is James Bond trying it at home just because mythbusters said you can do it if you are namesake with him?
making the spikes explosive would make it wayyyy better that would probablyy make the car stop immediately
11:19 Missed opportunity to do a "tack" joke, since a small weld is called a tack. "Welding tacks on tacks" lol
Gran Turismo says Hi!
A golf game can teach you the course layout but it can’t teach you to swing a club.
In a similar way, a driving game could teach you the layout of a circuit and the appropriate lines to take.
Driving with a good setup I think is the only major mechanical skill that will translate, I remember that when I got GT5 on PS3 I was also taking my license, aside from the cluth that my DFGT didn't have, I basically used what I learned in the game IRL in driving school.
I played so much super mario im now an expert at stomping turtles.
Doesnt come up often irl but still, it is s skill that translates well....
how did they get Jamie Driving a Golf Cart past the insurance company?
Golf carts have a max speed of 10Mph and you don't need insurance to drive on private land.
This episode was like a fad test because motion control games was literally a fad, games with more traditional controls like Flying Simulators are still playable and they are really effective for learning.
X3TC taught me how to get my CPIM certificate for Supply Chain... and space combat lol
With the golf story, one could also improve by reading a book on how to play and putting it into practice.
put your watch-strap around the grenade,McGiver
Adams outfit is like 1870,s golf
why even do the golf one if your gonna use the worst peripheral that is the PS3 motion controls
Sim racing conveys to real life. Plenty of exemples available of sim racers that became real life racers. Just to name a few: Jimmy broadbent, Steve brown, some nascar drivers....
There are certain games which improves real world skills, one example is the pro sim drift racer who was invited to drift a top drift racers car for the sole purpose of finding out if skills were transferable which it turns out they are
Good one. Do not try these at home unless you are James Bond... Or Q. 😅😅😅
Would've been more analogous to have Kari or some other woman hold the grenade, too. Adam had only a little trouble, but a woman's small hands and lower muscle density might have confirmed that myth for women, before Adam used clothing to tie the spoon shut
He picked the wrong golf game. They have golf simulators that you use real golf balls and clubs on. My uncle had one to help his golf game.
Both Jamie and Adam were doing the same mistake (or so it seems): you don't have to completely release the trigger before shooting again. That's what professional shooter did, and that's why his fire rate was much faster. So many episodes with guns and they didn't know about trigger reset?
Upload the water slide episode
for the quick gun magazine chance ask keanu reeves next time
Yes, a lot.
To really answer the question about games you'd need to really look at more than just one genre, and compare them to their real world equivalents.
You know what? 13 is actually pretty decent for a first time encounter with golf. I wonder if whiffs and penalties were considered?
I was expecting an actual gold simulator
17:33 hes seeing jesus
I really missed the old Myth Buster gang.
And the Mythbusters are wrong....... again.
You actually CAN become better doing stuff from playing a game.
This short little test they did here is just ridiculous and actually a little bit pathetic coming from scientists.
video game is more of a practice what you already know than learning from scratch... that is generally what pilot, police and nuclear reactor operator do... plus it's also matter what video game used as a practice, almost none of the video game that professional uses to practice is available to the public... i think the only one that do, is microsoft flight simulator.
Dunk it!
They overlooked one detail in grenade test. It was a woman, not a man holding it.
One "video game" type that evolved into simulator, is Driving & Racing games.
And those really can train people into a Pro in real life.
Because that count as Simulator not a game anymore.
I recently had a go in a fully immersive set up that cost the guy about $60K all in. It had a car interior, the seat swung about on gyros, the steering wheel feedback was all reality based etc. etc... It was absolutely nothing like driving a real car on a track in away way shape or form. It was actually a lot less fun than I was expecting. There is no way you can train someone that's an amateur into a "pro" on any simulator, it's simply not happening...
@@th-pw8pndumbass. Watch how BMW traines their drivers in simulators.
I love the later seasons because Adam seems to have rubbed off on Jamie in the way that he's seemingly a lot more comfortable on screen
Depends on what skill bc sim racing has proven to be as great as a teacher as a real one
Yes, after NEVER using a shotgun in my real life, on my first attempt i scored 7-10 on real clay pigeon shooting.
and seeing as a sim car racer became an actual pro Gtr race car driver myth confirmed
You are PROUD for America because they kept him alive. Even if he wasn’t, most are hit with a CRAZY bill if they don’t have insurance!! Sometimes, even when they do. What a twisted view!
why does the narrators voice in the later seasons sound like the batman
Strange that Jamie couldn't figure out the distance per club thing even after being instructed to. Golf definitely isn't for everyone. lol
It was like the producers told him to go out of his way to be stupid. I'm pretty sure with his engineering background he could figure out when to use a driver and when to use an iron.
3 situations that I think video games could absolutly improve your real world performance all have very physical elements. and they are all called simulators rather than games. Racing sims, where you have a force feedback wheel, pedals all that. Flight sims, again with force feedback yoke or stick, and a commercial VR welding simulator. they all need a little bit more realistic hardware than just a PlayStation, but are proven to provide real world skills in a virtual environment.
I'm unsurprised at the result, golf is a very physical nuanced game, you can feel the difference between swings if its good and bad, and Jamie just wasnt getting that. the game controller does not replicate that at all. having no heft, you could see he almost never followed through, because he wasnt swinging a lump of steel around. Im in no way a good golfer, but ive played a few proper games, and a messed around with golf skills quite a bit. we used to clear out paddocks from a weed called pig-melons, which grow a disgusting smelling, inedible melon about softball sized when ripe. but take a golf club out and smack all the melons when they are golfball sized, before the seeds can mature. very labour intensive, but my dad was pretty big brain, send a few 13yo lads out and make a competition of it. the game was to splatter melon chunks over your mates. we were disgusting afterwards, but we all learnt pretty good powerful and accurate swings out of it. after 2 years of that, we'd eliminated 90% of the weeds, to the point it wasnt much of a sport any more.
Then we discovered there are such things as floating golf balls. so we set up a driving range on the beach, with a ski boat as a retriever. I totally understand how dogs feel chasing balls, you didnt go until the THWACK of the ball and then race out as fast as possible to retrieve the ball. but you had to moderate your wake and speed so you could actually pick it up. not only did it greatly improve my drive, but also my boat handling. which you would never get towing a skier, approaching a dock, fishing, etc. video games are fun, but messing about with your mates playing weird invented games is better. you just cant really do that on a Wednesday night after work on your couch
the grenade one is still not realistic imho... the pressure and fear of a actual grenade exploding in your hands would make you grasp it with full force the whole time. pretty sure of it. and disabling it with something is quite the gamble not many would be willing to risk... all it needs is one slip and you're DEAD... not dirty with paint but actually DEAD. I think this Myth is not something you can just test like this
Why would you hold the grenade and not tie something around it? Surely cannot be that hard, but I guess if it's live you're not in a good place for a bit of trial and error.
I don’t think the video game was up to par. But in car racing Gran Turismo and NASCAR showed video games did help
Why golf and not ETS p.e???
wow playstation move?! it's been a while since i last saw one.
Gran Turismo did .... F1 drivers do
wish jamie used golf from wii sports😂
they only tested 1 game -.-
this guy had a firerate of around 211rpm!
You skiped ep08❤