Nº 004 — AUTOMOTIVE CONFIGURATOR
The Dimensional Pricing Display
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Research status
Frontier — A research question. Unexplored territory — not an established capability. What follows is a research question and a hypothesis, not a demonstrated capability.
THE PROBLEM
“A luxury car dealership has 20 different configurations of a single model (colors, interiors, wheels, packages). Currently: they use screens or require customers to build online, then see a rendering. Problem: customers don't trust renderings. Solution: rear-projected surface where a physical scale model of the car (1:10 or 1:20) is placed in front. The rear projection shows the real-world environment (street, garage, highway) with the car's exact selected configuration rendered in context. The customer sees their specific build in a photorealistic environment. No screens. No digital-ness. The scale model becomes photorealistic through the rear-projected context.”
REVENUE MODEL
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
MARKET
THE QUESTION
“Can a scale model appear life-size through rear-projection? Can context scale reality?”
Current evidence
None logged. No test or installation substantiates this investigation yet.
Unknowns
Substrate behaviour at the proposed scale, ambient-light conditions, projector configuration and viewing geometry remain to be tested.
Possible collaborators
Luxury automotive dealerships, performance car brands, exotic car retailers, automotive brand flagships.
- Automotive
- automotive
- car
- dealership
- configurator
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