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<\/span><\/P><\/p>\nEnhancing design validation with virtual reality<\/H3>
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For a long time, 3D models have played a dominate role in product development, but working with digital mockups is a far cry from interacting with an actual product.<\/P>
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Virtual reality (VR) bridges that gap. Rather than simply viewing a product on a monitor, VR permits users to fully experience it within a virtual space. In a VR environment, designers and decision makers can interact with the product in a way that closely mimics how it would respond in the real world. This not only reduces development time, but it also makes the resultant product more reliable and resilient during actual use, while ensuring a rich customer experience.<\/P>
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Advanced simulation, optimization and visualization capabilities are critical to enabling design teams and decision makers to design, test and review hundreds of options in a fraction of the time it would take to build and test a single physical prototype. Faster, better and more cost effective designs are being delivered every day. These digital prototypes can be complete representations of the real product and include colors, textures, lighting variations and even behaviors that allow visual validation as lifelike as the real thing. This ensures all stakeholders can understand what the product will look like and how it will function in its use environment.<\/P><\/p>\n Companies planning to enter the highly competitive and fast-moving smart sporting goods arena must immerse themselves in a technically accurate digital twin process that can help bring products to market quickly and efficiently.<\/P><\/p>\n This concludes our series on smart sporting goods. To learn more about the smart sporting goods industry, read our previous blogs:<\/EM><\/P>
Once users create a digital twin<\/A> of the product, they can use a VR device (such as the Oculus Rift<\/A> or HTC\u2019s Vive<\/A>) to immerse themselves into a virtual environment to conduct form, fit and function studies as well as design reviews. Imagine being able to view and analyze a 3D model<\/A> at the proper scale, and perform digital mockup operations such as sectioning, positioning, creating markups, all while being able to share this information with other developers.<\/P><\/p>\nEliminate physical prototypes<\/H3>
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