Tag: prototyping

More about Ford’s VR facilities

DigitalTrends has made a nice visit to Ford’s VR facilities (which I already talked about here), notably the Programmable Vehicle Model (PVM) and the Digital Preassembly Lab, but also the VIRTTEX driving simulator : There are two things…

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Ford’s VR design tools

I had the chance to meet Elizabeth Baron, last year’s IEEE VR Keynote speaker, and manager of the VR Center in Product Development at Ford. But I’ve never visited all their VR equipment ! CrunchGear was more lucky…

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IEEE VR 2009 – Keynote Speech – VR at Ford

I’m still processing my notes to make a summary of the conference, so in the meantime, here’s a nice video. The keynote was given by Elizabeth Baron, from Ford Motor Company. It is a very interesting and thourough…

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Mercedes and VR

Here are some articles about the use of VR at Mercedes / Daimler-Chrysler. The first at CarAndDriver.com : Ride/handling simulators and virtual reality coves also advanced the design [of the 2008 Mercedes Class-C] to a very mature level…

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Use of virtual reality spreading in business world

Here’s a well written introductory article to what VR is today and how business is using it increasingly. There’s a small technological glitch in it, will you find it? 😉

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