Tobias Schmidt
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Virtual Car - Individualised CD ROM


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did I mention that I like wireframe renderings

unveil the personalized car with the mouse pointer

images of the configured features float in virtual space at the same position where a camera would shoot them.

by moving through the virtual space and looking at the prerendered pictures a mental image of the whole car is created

the progressive user interface communicates the modern and technological image of the company

move on a hemispere around the car (detail view)

a panoramic movie of the interior (detail view)

fly through the car (detail view)


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Individalised CD ROM, Mac/Win, 1999

Context
Freelance project

Client
Art+Com AG

Principal
Mercedes Benz

team
Prof Joachim Sauter (concept, supervision)
Tobias Schmidt (concept, design, code)
and many more in the virtual car project itself


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The "Virtual Car" is a Virtual Reality System which allows potential car buyers to configure their car and survey it as a very realistic 3d-model in real time. (more details on "Virtual Car")

If the undecided customer wishes, he gets a few days after his visit at the car dealer a personalized CD ROM by mail. With the CD ROM the customer can reexperience the exiting configuration process of the Virtual-Car-System at his desktop computer.

With the help of a progressive three-d user interface the configured features of the car can be viewed on realistically prerendered images. The single images float in virtual space at exactly the same position where a camera would be positioned to shoot this image. Beside these images there are a flythrough movie, a panoramic movie of the interior and an object movie on the CD ROM. The object movie allows the user to move around the car on a hemisphere and to see the exterior from all angles.


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