Last November, we reported that Volvo had enlisted Microsoft HoloLens to help the company make it easier to sell its cars through a more interactive and innovative process. Today, the folks over at Automotive News Europe have learned that Volvo is once again using HoloLens, but this time to help the company’s engineers speed up the process of car development.
Volvo will reportedly give 15 of its Gothenburg-based car developers Microsoft HoloLens devices, with the ultimate goal of helping the car company reduce the development time of a new car model from 30 months to 20 months. The HoloLens device, however, has already been used over the year to help Volvo customers in Europe, Russia, and China visualize the safety features and actual 3-D holograms of Volvo cars.
While still in prototype mode, with the HoloLens in the hands of engineers, the company will be able to better explain and highlight problems that occur during the car development process. Loris Cwyl, a team manager and business developer on Volvo’s digital & connectivity consumer, highlighted the importance of HoloLens best and told Auto News Europe:
“We wanted a complimentary tool that engineers could use to develop cars… When we show this to engineers they are ecstatic about the potential..”
