Automobile manufacturer Audi has begun adapting virtual reality video game technology as a way to make its car design more efficient.
The German car company’s engineers currently use more traditional manual controllers to manipulate virtual automobiles. This is done inside a simulated workspace called the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE).
The system currently in development consists of a wearable virtual reality headset paired with a wearable device called Myo. The Myo is an armband that measures its wearer’s arm muscle activity and interprets it as data. But not all movements will be tracked by the Myo. The gesture tracker is activated by pressing the user’s thumb and middle finger together. The generated data can then be manipulated by engineers inside the CAVE interactive space and used as a way to test car concepts.
“We want to make picking up and moving the components more intuitive in the future,” Katharina Kunz, Audi’s development engineer, told Dezeen Magazine. “Technologies from the gaming world are ideal for us because they are relatively inexpensive and are being developed rapidly."
Audi hopes to roll out the gesture-control technology to its engineers within the next few months.
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Source: Dezeen Magazine
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