Ford is borrowing from the motion picture industry to enhance its own virtual design tools. The same high-tech software used to animate the Star Wars character Yoda and create the movie Shrek is now helping Ford designers to improve the interiors of its vehicles for consumers.
"This new technology not only allows Ford to study early interior designs in greater detail, it is allows us to animate the background for added realism," said Elizabeth Baron, technical specialist, Ford Virtual Reality & Advanced Visualization. "The end result is that we can create better interiors, more quickly."
Gresens says iVR was used early in his vehicle program, well before any prototype parts were made, to help verify concept designs. In one instance, it resulted in the repositioning of some interior components.
The advanced software is capable of creating a virtual environment that includes bright sunlight, cloudy conditions, rain, snow, reflections, and the animation of traffic and scenery to give the illusion that the virtual vehicle is moving.
Inside the car, changes can be made to the color and texture of interior surfaces.
A user's actual motions, such as reaching for a virtual audio control, are instantly duplicated by the computer-generated world. Want to check your blind spot? Just turn your head as you normally would, and you'll see it. Even the size of users can be altered to gain a larger, or smaller, perspective.
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