Gadgetory

when you buy your next car there may be no need to traipse all the way down to the dealership we're taking a look at some technology that lets you explore a car from the comfort of your mobile device so it's been put together by Accenture using Google's project tango which is a rather exciting system for exploring virtual spaces and objects using a mobile gadget like a tablet so what this is doing is rendering a car in space in this case it's a v8 500 so that you can check out the outside but the car is interactive too so if I've popped the door here we can check out the dashboard we can even try some of the buttons and put some music on one thing I'll highlight that I think is a particularly cool touch is that when you get inside the car in virtual space you can even look out the windscreen and see people through a virtual glass so a lot of effort has been made to make this car as customizable as possible so you can see how many options you have so for example we can change the paint color on the outside we can check out some different rims as well and you can adjust the interior also so this AR tech can obviously only take you so far I think if I was buying a car I definitely want to do a test drive first rather than just examine it in virtual space maybe that's a challenge more for virtual reality than augmented reality anyway that's all for now but check out cnet.com slash n WC for much more