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The flight simulator, for instance, cannot simply download the virtual aircraft from the design computers.
Some firms design games and virtual environments specifically for health-care applications.
Similarly, by adjusting the parameters of the mathematical model, it is possible to change the design of the virtual car, trying out different gearboxes and gear ratios, or adjusting the suspension.
They may even realise that they no longer need to make cars at all, deciding to follow the example of Cisco Systems, a data-networking firm, by becoming virtual companies whose expertise lies in design and brand marketing.
Of course, virtual world game designers have a right to design socialist economies just as much as free market economies.
That and other design changes were worked out in virtual reality laboratories that allowed engineers and designers on two continents to discuss the car as if they were in the same room.
Contrary to utopian social planning, free-market virtual economies will emerge spontaneously rather than through design and the ultimate victorious currency will be a market-based competitor that can move seamlessly across multiple grids.
One advantage gained from switching to a more fully featured design program was the ability to perform simulations and virtual stress tests.
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Their plan: to create a "virtual car company" that would farm out most of the design, engineering and manufacturing work for the V-12 to outside suppliers.
Their plan: to create a "virtual car company" that would farm out most of the design, engineering and manufacturing work for the powerful V-12 to outside suppliers.
You can achieve a similar result via virtual sculpture gardens with a multiplayer feature, provided the level design and the music are pretty enough to move the users.
Customers, with their lack of design skills and market savvy, are kept safely away from the design process and only begin their role when the product hits the virtual store shelves.
Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.
Dr Swade, agreed that this was the correct approach and said a virtual recreation of the machine could solve "95% of problems" and allow them to use computer to design the thousands of individual parts needed to make the behemoth.
Creating a virtual environment in which those paths, and any in-between, could be explored was less about video game design and more about creating a rich world, said Mr Smith.
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