Virtual reality cave for Jaguar and Land Rover
Author: MotorTorque Team
Published: 12 December 2007
Jaguar and Land Rover today revealed plans for a new industry-leading design facility that will draw on advanced audio visual technologies with the projection power of eight cinemas to significantly speed up product development cycles.
Some £2m ($4m) is to be invested in a state-of-the-art ´Virtual Reality Centre´ which will allow engineers and designers to see in life-size three-dimension, models of vehicles and components. It will reduce the need for physical prototypes, saving both time and money in the process.
The most advanced facility of its kind in the world, Jaguar and Land Rover´s four-walled ´cave´ draws on projection power equivalent to eight hi-tech cinemas and will provide a virtual reality environment simulating vehicle exteriors and interiors and capable of making bodywork appear transparent.
"This is a key advance in our development toolbox," said Al Kammerer, Product Development Director for Jaguar and Land Rover. "The awesome power of this project is unparalleled in our industry worldwide and will allow us to produce new vehicles on a much quicker timeline, to update and develop more responsively to customer trends and to be considerably more efficient as well."
Eight Sony SRX-S105 high resolution projectors – each as powerful as the strongest projector used in any of today´s hi-tech cinemas – will provide a visual quality that clearly outstrips existing industry virtual reality caves by producing photo realistic images.
The user wears 3-D glasses to experience ´ultimate realism´ with an ultra-high resolution that is twice as clear as the latest High Definition TV!
Raj Pandya, General Manager, Sony UK added: "The Sony 4K projectors are four times the resolution of High Definition, meaning it is almost impossible to see pixels on this size screen. These projectors are now going to affect the auto market in a drastic way."
The new Virtual Reality cave is due to be completed and operational at Jaguar and Land Rover´s Gaydon engineering centre by spring 2008.
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