{"id":19453,"date":"2015-11-20T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/volvo-teams-with-microsoft-hololens-for-virtual-car-buying"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:22:50","slug":"volvo-teams-with-microsoft-hololens-for-virtual-car-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/volvo-teams-with-microsoft-hololens-for-virtual-car-buying","title":{"rendered":"Volvo teams with Microsoft HoloLens for virtual car buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DilzwF90vec\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the near future, car buyers may find themselves putting on Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/tags\/hololens\/\">HoloLens<\/a> augmented reality headset in order to check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/tags\/volvo\/\">Volvo<\/a> in a kind of virtual showroom. The car manufacturer has announced a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/tags\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a> to incorporate the HoloLens into the car buying experience. The concept they debuted today images a customer and car dealer putting on the headset and interacting with a holographic car.<\/p>\n<p>The HoloLens would allow users to do the typical things one would expect when shopping for a car, like comparing colors and wheel rims, as well as much more, like inspecting a projection of the engine from any angle, getting a view of what it\u2019s like to sit inside, or experience demonstrations of a car\u2019s unique features.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/volvo-teams-with-microsoft-hololens-for-virtual-car-buying-20415420\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the near future, car buyers may find themselves putting on Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens augmented reality headset in order to check out a Volvo in a kind of virtual showroom. The car manufacturer has announced a partnership with Microsoft to incorporate the HoloLens into the car buying experience. The concept they debuted today images a customer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63661,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453\/revisions\/63661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}