Volkswagen
Overview
Abstract
Volkswagen
was probably the first german automobile maker to investigate the use of virtual
reality for manufacturing, styling, review, simulation, etc.
In this project, I have implemented a VR system ( Virtual
Design II ) for the development team at Volkswagen. The goal was a system
so that VW could implement their applications themselves.
Partner
Volkswagen
Duration
Fall 1994 - Dec 1998
( the cooperation with VW is still continuing, although many projects are now
handled by VRCom )
Team
The size and members of the team varied a lot during the project. In the
beginning, Wolfgang Felger managed the project and I implemented it,
later I implemented and managed it. Other members were, for a time,
Dirk
Reiners, Udo Jacob,
Christian Knöpfle,
Torsten Fröhlich,
Alexander Rettig.
Movies
Functionality
This is just a small list of some of the features implemented during
the project.
- two-handed interaction
- 3D audio
- LODs
- computation of volume of selected objects
- navigation with different modes and devices
- generation and deletion of objects
- IGES converter, Inventor-loader
- virtual yardstick
- virtual windtunnel
- speech input, navigation by speech
- selection of multiple objects
- grasping
- optimization for rendering
- minimum distance
- scaling of the user´s (virtual) size
- various display devices (HMD, cave wall, ...)
- impostor, mirrors
- binary load/save
- Phantom-Support
- online Radiosity
- speech synthesis
- panorama
- real-time clipping
- shadows
- 2D menus
- constraints
- "ghost" as collision feedback
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Gabriel Zachmann
Last modified:
Mon Aug 25 02:02:38 MDT 2003
