Re:Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
by jackbrookes on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:15PM
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Why do you assume CAD and VR are mutually exclusive? Interfaces of the future haven't been designed yet - but it's not hard to naively imagine taking any CAD program and turning the viewport into a 3D window. Something that allows you to use your head to look around it, use your fingers to spin the object around, pinch to zoom or other gestures. The rest of the interface could stay the same as it is now and interacted with via a mouse and keyboard, and it would be much better than the current CAD (if there was a VR HMD that has a very high resolution and allows some level of mixed reality for interaction with with desk objects as well as your colleagues)
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Re:Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
by syntaxing on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:50PM
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I think 3D mouse does pretty much what you ask for though[1]. I'm sure the possibilities are beyond my imagination with VR but I personally just can't see the benefits. Most engineers are pretty good with their abstract of space so I can't imagine VR being a necessity for design.
Re:Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR
by slavik81 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @01:41AM
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I've briefly used one of those. It's a cool little device once you get used to it, but there's definitely a learning curve. By comparison, it's hard to understate how intuitive VR headsets are for controlling your camera. That might not matter for professional drafters, but it would certainly make 3D modelling more accessible to the public in general. I can imagine a future in which 3D models are created and used much like images are used today.