‘Autos’ Archives
Nissan Canada lets you skip the car salesperson with its YouTube virtual showroom
Nissan Canada is letting buyers bypass the car salesperson by opening a virtual showroom where car shoppers already gather — YouTube. Motorists looking for a new car often start by watching professional and amateur reviews and comparisons on the video-sharing website, the [Read More]
J.J. Abrams’ Alcatraz To Feature Ford Sponsored Interactive Games
By now, if you’re a fan of that other show involving J. J. Abrams, Jorge Garcia, and an Island, you’ve probably seen the pilot for Alcatraz, Abram’s new history-bending, multiple time-line, island based, thriller-mystery. As you may know, Ford is deeply [Read More]
Sales of cars with social network connections and more to grow 650%
MS Research says the market in 2010 saw 5.4m units sold, but believes that consumer demand will prompt a surge. It says nearly 60 per cent of consumers want a connected system in their next car, and that almost half of consumers would be willing to pay up to £10 [Read More]
New mobile app from Kia let’s you take a ‘virtual’ drive
Automaker Kia Motors is letting consumers test out the company’s new line of Picanto vehicles via an interactive iPad application. Mobile Commerce Daily [Read More]
Enjoy being a backseat driver with this app from ToyToyota
Backseat Driver, the first product introduced by ToyToyota, is an iPhone application which allows users to enjoy driving from the back seat of their car. It is the world’s first mobile application that you can enjoy driving from the backseat of your car. You can take a [Read More]
Dassault Systems brings 3D and virtual reality to your next car
Designers Michaël Harboun, Fabien Chancel and Akki Reddy Challa have been working in collaboration with Dassault Systems to explore augmented reality inside vehicles. In the future, when our cars are autonomous and can drive themselves, Harboun and his colleagues have [Read More]
Dassualt 3D hits 1 million downloads and some very cool user products
Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, announced today that DraftSight has surpassed one million downloads. Over the past year since the launch of the no-cost 2D CAD product, users have been gravitating – from every area [Read More]
Volkswagen launches ‘Think Blue’ virtual marketing campaign
Volkswagen Singapore has launched a campaign centred on its philosophy of environmental conservation titled ‘Think Blue.’ Think Blue is a global initiative from Volkswagen and is focused on encouraging eco-friendly behaviour by making it fun. In Singapore, the [Read More]
Who’s That (Virtual) Girl? Ford Uses Motion Capture Game Technology to Design Worker-Friendly Factories
Play too many video games and you might get repetitive strain injuries (RSI). But Ford Motor is adopting video game technology so its workers don’t get RSI. The company, based in Dearborn, MI, is using Hollywood-style motion capture technology (the kind that makes Green [Read More]
Ford follows Audi and launches virtual showroom
When Audi first launched a virtual showroom space in the Playstation Home virtual reality environment back in 2009, it received something of a mixed response from fans. The reaction ranged from gamers describing it as a “waste of good bandwidth” to those who [Read More]
