According to a CNBC report, employees at Ford are collaborating with Gravity Sketch, a virtual reality (VR) tool that allows engineers to work on automobiles of the future in real-time around the world.
Developed by Gravity Sketch Limited in collaboration with Ford, these engineers are using Co-Creation, a feature within the Gravity Sketch software that helps with real-time collaboration is Co-Creation. Michael Smith, a design manager at Ford, said that the feature added “more voices to the conversation in a virtual environment, which results in more efficient design work that may help accelerate a vehicle program’s development.”
Ford said that designers in five Ford studios around the world were experimenting with Gravity Sketch, looking at both “workflow feasibility” and capabilities relating to “real-time co-creation and collaboration.”
VR’s usage streamlines training and design processes across the business and industrial sectors, such as with Rolls-Royce and Qatar Airways VR training on the Trent XWB airplane engine and Oculus’ commitment to providing hardware and software support for enterprise.
