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Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Industrial Design

Industrial design has become crucial to the products innovation and value-added process in current highly competitive marketplace. In order to provide designers nature and intuitive means to express their ideas freely and overcome the technical gap in the iterative design process, virtual and augmented reality technologies are employed to supplement the traditional Computer Aided Design - Rapid Prototyping (CAD-RP) iterative design process. Although there is a vast amount of literature on facilitating mechanical design and manufacturing with virtual and augmented reality technology, not much has been summarized specially on the mixed reality aided industrial design space. This paper has surveyed the development of virtual and augmented reality applications in industrial design from a designer's perspective, with a particular focus on spatial design, hybrid prototyping and assembly in an augmented environment. It provides a comparison between traditional design process and the improvements affected by mixed reality technology that both designers and researchers could benefit from it. Keywords-Virtual reality; augmented reality; industrial design; spatial design; hybrid prototyping; assembly.