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The Volvo Car Group is pointing the way to the future of automotive development: The Swedish premium manufacturer has now joined forces with Varjo, a Finnish manufacturer of high-quality augmented reality headsets, for the first mixed-reality approach for evaluating prototypes, designs and active ones This collaboration is being supported by the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, which invests in Varjo: the Group's venture capital fund promotes promising startups in the technology sector.With the new concept of Volvo and Varjo, the real and virtual worlds are merging: the virtual reality headset seamlessly complements virtual elements and even complete functions while driving a real car. Both the driver and the vehicle sensors perceived these enhancements as real, something that no other carmaker has ever achieved.The Varjo XR-1 headset, launched today, delivers unprecedented levels of photorealistic mixed or virtual reality in high definition. This dramatically shortens automotive development times by allowing features and design features to be evaluated virtually instantly. Compared to its predecessor, the XR-1 headset has high-resolution cameras and enables the display of mixed reality. Volvo engineers and engineers can drive future cars and test all functions in a simulation environment - many years before the vehicles hit the market.
Volvo is now joining forces with the Swedish sports brand POC: To further improve the safety of cyclists in road traffic, the two companies are now jointly conducting crash tests with cars and bicycle helmets. This unique research project and the partnership with POC are further examples of Volvo's pioneering role in safety development: The Swedish premium car manufacturer wants to improve the safety of all road users - also through cooperation and the provision of in-house research results.
Volvo is now joining forces with the Swedish sports brand POC: To further improve the safety of cyclists in road traffic, the two companies are now jointly conducting crash tests with cars and bicycle helmets. This unique research project and the partnership with POC are further examples of Volvo's pioneering role in safety development: The Swedish premium car manufacturer wants to improve the safety of all road users - also through cooperation and the provision of in-house research results.
Where would you live if you could commute each workday in an autonomous driving, fully-functional, connected, comfortable, mobile office space? What if the service was provided via an on demand subscription basis? Or what if it was provided by one employer yet not another – which company would you work for? This is a mere glimpse of a myriad of scenarios and questions raised by Volvo Cars’ new Volvo 360c concept, revealed today as part of the company’s vision for the future of travel – autonomous, electric, connected and safe – and which may allow Volvo Cars to enter new growth markets. The concept environments reflect the potential for change in the fundamental structure of how people live, by transforming unproductive or boring travel time into useful and enjoyable minutes or hours on the road.
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