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VR-Drive Driving simulation package in which advanced technology can be experienced with a simple operation Price● （New）US$630 Release● March 21, 2012 UC-win Simulation

Introduction

VR-Drive is a product for the purpose of introducing and experiencing the advanced driving simulation with an easy operation. It is expected to be used as a educational tool, educational package for kids and for driving school, exhibition etc. It enables you to experience various driving scenario from the daily driving to the unexpected or dangerous happening. ECO drive plug-in is installed on it and that enables you to calculate fuel consumption and CO2 emissions due to car driving.

Concept

Unnecessary difficult work is eliminated as much as it can be so that the even beginners can introduce VR-Drive easily. VR space can be imported automatically by installing VR-Drive from CD and activating a program and the screen (Figure 1) to select the set scenario (course) is displayed. Then, driving starts by selecting scenario and it can be experienced under each condition (Pedestrian, bicycle, turning left and right and road with poor visibility). It enables you to experience breaking the speed limit, crush judgment to the pedestrians' or running vehicle's jumping out and the danger on a road as close to the reality as possible.  ■Figure 1　Course selection ■Figure 2　Driving image

Function and feature

Hardware If PC on which a controller of the steering wheel system etc. of the Logitec Co., and a necessary video card are installed  is prepared, you can experience VR-Drive at once. Interactive drive scenario In VR-Drive, the standard driving scenario data is included and it enables you to experience the difference of whether, rain, fog and thunder etc and the difference by the time of day and night. ECO drive report The report of the amount of the emission is displayed. Young people' drivers can learn not only the protecting person's life while driving but also the contribution to the environmental protection (Figure 3).  ■Figure 3　ECO drive report Embedding arbitrary data If there is VR-Drive supported data, it is possible to build the it instead of standard data (Figure 4).  Also the users of UC-win/Road can create this VR-Drive supported data if the scenario used for a course is selected or the course information (title, course image, explanation) is set (Figure 5). ■Figure 4　Data selection screen ■Figure 5　Course setting Customization The driving scenario and real 3D VR data designed with specialists of road safety can be prepared upon request. Moreover, a flexible customizing is possible and that makes it possible to generate the specified event at the time of driving as specified and even to set the surrounding environment such as wind, flood, fire and smoke etc (ask quotation).

Finally

It is planned to be support Japanese (Ver.1 supports only English) and extend the max number of course (Ver.1 supports max 5 courses) in the future.

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