Nº 004 — AUTOMOTIVE CONFIGURATOR

The Dimensional Pricing Display

Archive number

Nº 004

Category

Transportation

Sector

Automotive

Research status

Frontier

Frontier — A research question. Unexplored territory — not an established capability. What follows is a research question and a hypothesis, not a demonstrated capability.

$250M TAMUnclaimed

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

$50K–100K per dealership. 5,000+ luxury car dealerships.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Material preserving scale model fine detail while rear-projection creates photorealistic environmental context. Human brain scales model up; perceives as full-size in context. Pure optical psychology.

MARKET

Luxury automotive dealerships, performance car brands, exotic car retailers, automotive brand flagships.

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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