Volkswagen has announced plans to expand its use of innovative techniques which give service personnel an x-ray view "inside" the car.
Augmented Reality, a technique which expands the real world using digital projections, will be used to train Volkswagen service teams to the highest levels.
Three-dimensional design data is projected onto the surface of the vehicle, in the correct position and in perspective, from a number of different viewing angles.
Professor Jürgen Leohold, head of Volkswagen Group Research, said: "This creates a kind of 'virtual x-ray vision' for the viewer, which enables them to see otherwise hidden components and structures inside the vehicle."
It is hoped that the new x-ray view will allow Volkswagen to explain in depth to service personnel exactly how new technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles, work.
The system has also been successfully tested for service training on the new Sharan, to show the operational set-up of the electric sliding doors, which will improve service should anything go wrong with the doors in the future.
Volkswagen recently opened the order book for its new open-top Eos in the UK, following the debut of the luxury car at the Los Angeles Motor Show.
Posted by Bob Fletcher.
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