#31 – VR in the Aerospace Industry with Mbryonic Founder Tom Szirtes

Tom Szirtes is the founder and director of Mbryonic, a London-based digital design studio. Mbryonic specialises in creating virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality experiences that help organisations communicate, educate and entertain more effectively. Apart from the traditional applications in gaming and education, VR is now increasingly important for industrial design and engineering in general. For example, Mbryonic recently partnered with All Nippon Airways to provide customers an immersive virtual tour of All Nippon's new business class in the Boeing 777 cabin. Mbryonic has also partnered with Acumen to create ‘The Adient Ascent VR’; a modular aircraft seating system that allows airlines to configure their cabins through a touch screen interface and then experience what it’s actually like to be in the cabin through a VR headset. Apart from discussing these two projects, Tom and I talk about:

• the fundamentals of and differences between virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality
• some of the advantages of VR that will transform the aerospace business landscape
• and how engineers can benefit from using the technology

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