Mixed reality distributed platform for collaborative design review of automotive interiors: This paper presents how mixed reality technologies allow a closer collaboration among designers, final users and engineers and hence reduce the time for reviewing and validating car interior designs

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 243-259

  Bordegoni, M ^a   Caruso, G ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

automotive design; collaborative design; design methodology; mixed reality; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE DESIGNS; AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORS; CAR INTERIORS; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN REVIEW; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN REVIEW; DISTRIBUTED DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED PLATFORMS; MIXED REALITY; MIXED REALITY TECHNOLOGIES; NEW PRODUCT; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84870556890     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2012.721605     Document Type: Article

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