MOZA’s foray into the Motion Market and AI Coaching

Let’s start with the ele­phant in the room, the HMA150 Motion Actu­a­tor. The fact that a high-end sys­tem deliv­ers 150 mil­lime­ters of trav­el, 150 hertz vibra­tion fre­quen­cy, or 1G accel­er­a­tion is sim­ply the expect­ed stan­dard in the absolute top class. What makes this sys­tem a true tech­no­log­i­cal mile­stone for the home cock­pit, how­ev­er, is the pack­ag­ing. Any­one who has pre­vi­ous­ly brought a 4‑axis sys­tem into their home had to endure unbe­liev­able pain when build­ing the rig and hide huge, hum­ming 220-volt indus­tri­al con­trol box­es along with cable bun­dles as thick as an arm next to the sim­u­la­tor. MOZA has solved this mas­sive prob­lem absolute­ly bril­liant­ly by inte­grat­ing the entire con­trol elec­tron­ics direct­ly into the com­pact hous­ing of the actu­a­tors. A clean 48-volt sys­tem that vir­tu­al­ly elim­i­nates cable clut­ter and final­ly makes high-end motion tru­ly suit­able for the liv­ing room. Paired with the aggres­sive pric­ing pol­i­cy we know from MOZA in the direct-dri­ve mar­ket, this com­bi­na­tion of ele­gant design and afford­able price will put enor­mous pres­sure on the mar­ket of the estab­lished dom­i­nant play­ers. Sud­den­ly, a 4‑axis sys­tem becomes acces­si­ble to the mass­es.

This prin­ci­ple of smart fur­ther devel­op­ment is also evi­dent in the area of dri­ver train­ing. The new AI coach in the so-called “Rac­ing Lab” does not rein­vent teleme­try analy­sis. Soft­ware that com­pares our lap times with those of e‑sports pro­fes­sion­als and shows us on the mon­i­tor where we are los­ing time has long been used in pro­fes­sion­al coach­ing. MOZA’s bril­liant, inno­v­a­tive twist, how­ev­er, is the seam­less phys­i­cal hard­ware inte­gra­tion. Instead of mere­ly pre­sent­ing you with dry graphs, the AI active­ly access­es your MOZA wheel­base and the active ped­als. The sys­tem lit­er­al­ly forces the per­fect steer­ing angle and brak­ing pres­sure onto your hands and feet. You no longer just look at the per­fect line, you are phys­i­cal­ly guid­ed through it. That is a tremen­dous leap for build­ing mus­cle mem­o­ry and ele­vates the con­cept of coach­ing to a lev­el that pure data analy­sis sim­ply can­not achieve.

The GDC line­up is round­ed off by the Motion Man­ag­er. This AI-sup­port­ed soft­ware ana­lyzes image and sound from games in real time that do not actu­al­ly send any teleme­try data, and trans­lates them into move­ments of the actu­a­tors. The fact that you can now phys­i­cal­ly feel the rum­bling of the road and hard impacts in titles such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemp­tion, or Cyber­punk 2077 is some­thing we already know from D‑BOX or Motion Sys­tems, and for the hard­core rac­er on iRac­ing it may only be a nice gim­mick on the side­lines. But it turns the entire rig into an ulti­mate enter­tain­ment machine for all gam­ing gen­res, which once again enor­mous­ly increas­es the prac­ti­cal val­ue of the hard­ware.

Our con­clu­sion after this pre­sen­ta­tion is crys­tal clear. MOZA is play­ing the per­fect play­book here: they take elit­ist, often far too com­pli­cat­ed hard­core tech­nol­o­gy out of the niche, pack­age it into an unbe­liev­ably clean, func­tion­al ecosys­tem with­out cable clut­ter, and make it acces­si­ble to every­one through an expect­ed high­ly com­pet­i­tive price. It is exact­ly this democ­ra­ti­za­tion of high-end equip­ment that excites us so much at SimUl­ti­mate. We are already prepar­ing every­thing in our show­room to test whether MOZA’s dec­la­ra­tion of war works just as well on the track as it does on paper. The release is planned for Q3 2026 – more infor­ma­tion will fol­low.