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People/Ideas
The Compact Full-Spectrum Simulator, VI-grade's newest model.
driver and it could be active or passive. And then you
can connect different types of technology to these,
let's say computer or chassis or position of the driver.
Then, starting with an experience that is only visual
and sound, you can make the experience even larger.
The visual experience could start only with visual and
sound, and then adding vibration and movement.
What is the biggest hurdle or hurdles facing wider
adoption of simulators to replace parts of the development
cycle?
There is no shared understanding of what a simulator
is. I always use the analogy of the bicycle at the end of
the 18th century with the big front wheel [the penny
farthing]. Then 1 million frames later it becomes
the bicycle [that we know of today, with equal-sized
wheels]. Everybody sketching a bicycle would draw the
same thing. Now, if I asked you to sketch a simulator...
Second: People over their 60s like me, grew up with
Bill Gates still in his garage, right? Our managers in
bigger OEMs are still in their 60s and they know a car
has been a car - four wheels with inflated tires and an
internal combustion engine. Changing from current
development standards is difficult for them.
An impact on big OEMs of simulation is not only
the technology, but how do I manage my troops? How
do I organize my work? I am coming from years and
years of certain procedures [CAE, then prototyping,
then multiple iterations].
Then in eight years or less the technology changes.
Which means somebody's losing power in big organizations.
Then you find reluctance and you have to
understand which way to go. For me, this is what is
slowing down the massive adoption of this technology.
Because in three years, there is a new [development
technology]. For us, it takes patience.
At VI-grade, we change because the new generation,
of course, has grown up more in the world of
augmented reality and mixing one or the other. So
there is much more instinctive acceptance of simulation.
I expect in 10 years looking back, some will say
'why did we wait so long?'
How does the rapidly advancing world of AI affect
simulation?
That is something we have introduced for legacy
management of various subsystems. We have artificial
intelligence that learns about subsystem delays and
tries to reduce the differences in data from different
sensors. I'm going to say that there isn't anything
specific at the moment.
We are using sensor fusion to combine telemetry
data with driver data to ensure the comfort of the
simulator driver. ■
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