{"id":1176,"date":"2010-10-12T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2010-10-12T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:00:30","slug":"more-about-fords-vr-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/more-about-fords-vr-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Ford&#8217;s VR facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\">DigitalTrends<\/a> has made a nice visit to Ford&#8217;s VR facilities (which I already talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/fords-vr-design-tools\/\">here<\/a>), notably the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/lifestyle\/cars-lifestyle\/driving-the-undriven-fords-cave-environment-and-programmable-vehicle-model\/\">Programmable Vehicle Model<\/a> (PVM) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/features\/detroit-goes-digital-inside-fords-virtual-manufacturing\/\">Digital Preassembly Lab<\/a>, but also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/lifestyle\/cars-lifestyle\/lifestyle\/cars-lifestyle\/pixels-in-motion-fords-virttex-simulator\/\">VIRTTEX driving simulator<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"digital-preassembly-lab-650x380\" src=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/data\/2010\/10\/digital-preassembly-lab-650x380.jpg\" alt=\"digital-preassembly-lab-650x380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=c2NjVnMTr5UywFyF732TiNl_XRvSPwB7&amp;width=500&amp;embedCode=c2NjVnMTr5UywFyF732TiNl_XRvSPwB7&amp;height=280\"><\/script> <script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?embedCode=g0NjVnMTrDNuFglyxoT1kiALR8YueFFy&amp;width=500&amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=g0NjVnMTrDNuFglyxoT1kiALR8YueFFy&amp;height=280\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There are two things I particularly like about the PVM and the digital assembly :<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Passive haptics: having real objects match virtual objects and obstacles. This improves immersion greatly, and is much easier to setup than real haptics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Empathy testing: testing the vehicle with your actual body, then test it with the body of a shorter man, or a taller woman. Feel what it&#8217;s like to be in a body different than yours ! Mel Slater is also <a href=\"http:\/\/presence-thoughts.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/presence-in-another-body-we-recently.html\">investigating this issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With all that I&#8217;m confident we can say that VR has reached the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hype_cycle\">Slope of Enlightenment<\/a> (even if Gartner is not yet aware of it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigitalTrends has made a nice visit to Ford&#8217;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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[295,442,392,107,443,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}