Volvo Car Corporation

Timotei Ghiurau

Jon Seneger

Mattias Wikenmalm

Casper Wickman

A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines in relation to a road-driven vehicle, with support from a tracking system, an orientation of a head-mounted display, HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant on-board the road-driven vehicle or position and gaze direction of the occupant. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides in real-time to a HMD display of the HMD or another display, taking into consideration the HMD orientation or position and gaze direction, a virtual representation of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing image derived from real-world perception sensor data captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached perception sensors adapted to capture surroundings internal or external to the road-driven vehicle.

Evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature

A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system () for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines () in relation to a road-driven vehicle (), with support from a tracking system (), an orientation of a head-mounted display (), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant () on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines () a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides () in real-time to a HMD display () of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation () of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing video stream () derived from real-world image data () captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached cameras () adapted to capture surroundings external of the road-driven vehicle.

A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system () for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle functionality feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines () in relation to a road-driven vehicle (), with support from a tracking system (), an orientation of a head-mounted display (), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant () on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines () a simulated vehicle functionality feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides () in real-time to a HMD display () of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation () of the simulated vehicle functionality feature superimposed on a real-time real-world video stream () derived from real-world image data captured with support from one or more forward-facing cameras () provided on the HMD in eye-position of the occupant.

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Timotei Ghiurau