Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
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Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#2They obviously showed a lot of meticulously mated actual 3D components but those were all prepared in a CAD program.
Sure, the VR sketch might be useful, but the visual part of the video is quite a lot of marketing spin when it’s not showing the abstract lines.
And I’m not sure that VR is the best way to “feel” a car in this way either. A car is an extension of your body, so it’s just as important where/what your shoulders, knees and legs are/feel as to what the eyes can see.
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#3When I was at Edmunds.com, I worked on a few "greenfield" projects, including VR. I'm generally bearish on VR, but I think if there's a space where VR can truly usher in a paradigm shift, it's auto -- both for design/development, as well as showcasing (think potential buyers, auto shows, etc.).
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#4I'm having trouble with the title.
Wouldn't the title be equally as correct written as "create VR cars in 3D", or even just "create cars in VR".
And that's before mentioning that 'create' is ambiguous. Build or design???
Could someone convince me on the use case? I get that designing a car in 20 hours is 'better' than in 20 weeks. But with all the 1000s of hours put into other considerations, is this going to make any appreciable difference to anything?
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#5When I was at Edmunds.com, I worked on a few "greenfield" projects, including VR. I'm generally bearish on VR, but I think if there's a space where VR can truly usher in a paradigm shift, it's auto -- both for design/development, as well as showcasing (think potential buyers, auto shows, etc.).
"for design/development"
Could you expand?
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#6They obviously showed a lot of meticulously mated actual 3D components but those were all prepared in a CAD program. Sure, the VR sketch might be useful, but the visual part of the video is quite a lot of marketing spin when it’s not showing the abstract lines. And I’m not sure that VR is the best way to “feel” a car in this way either. A car is an extension of your body, so it’s just as important where/what your sho…
Basically any usage of VR outside of gaming right now is guaranteed to just be marketing nonsense. The hardware simply isn’t there for real world professional usage as a productivity enhancing device. Some day we’ll be there, but the current state of even the most advanced HMDs is little beyond toy prototypes at this point.
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#7I’m working on something similar (not announced yet).
Tools like Gravity Sketch, and the tool I’m making, are great for conceptualization and communication.
In seconds to minutes you can take an idea from your head and show it to someone else. You can have an idea for a product ready to show your peers and in moments they can offer feedback and make changes.
Tools like this aren’t replacing the final engineering yet, but they’re making the planning and communication stage dramatically more efficient.
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#8So what? The industry is far too conservative to bring any sort of radical design to mass market. This may as well be "Ford designers are learning to use A1 paper instead of letter sized"
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#9Were they making 2D cars before?
Re: Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
#10Too bad their engineers are not learning how to make cars that don't need several recalls.