2. Design in a virtual environment

In many companies, innovation processes are clearly defined and standardized, with sequenced phases from idea gathering to transfer to development and production units. This transfer follows acceleration phases, when ideas and concepts come face to face with real customer needs.

Today's mature virtual technologies can provide a decisive advantage in speeding up the processes put in place, by equipping specific phases of the process.

Virtual reality has already proved its worth in product design, but it can be put to good use right from the creative phase, and integrated into the digital chain to facilitate the production of intermediate representations, whether virtual or physical, as in the case of 3D printing. This section will demonstrate the benefits of integrating virtual reality into the entire design process.