At the GTC conference in Silicon Valley, the chipmaker shows the potential of virtual reality applied to the automotive industry.
A man drives a car, by operating it manually, but without being inside the vehicle. The new technology developed by NVIDIA has made this possible and was shown at the GPU Technology Conference currently taking place in Silicon Valley. HOLODECK software designed by the chipmaker is used to leverage the potential of virtual reality.
What HOLODECK is capable of?
The driver in the room, wearing the HTC Vive viewer and with the steering wheel and pedals in front of him, was able to drive a Ford Fusion positioned outside the building remotely, moving it in such a way as to avoid the obstacles in his path until arriving at parking.
Innovations of this type will be enabled by the advent of 5G networks that will be a reality at a global level within recent years. A similar experiment was shown last year by Ericsson in the pavilions of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: a car 50 km away was driven from a remote location. Below is the movie.
It also demonstrates how NVIDIA’s reach has now extended far beyond the GPU market to include automotive and self-driving cars, where a huge volume of real-time information and images is needed to enable the vehicle to interpret what is happening in its surroundings.