Patent ID: 7761269

Claim:
A system for subjective evaluation of a vehicle design within a virtual environment using virtual reality comprising: a scaleable physical property representative of the vehicle design, wherein the physical property is adjusted according to a scale ratio for an evaluator of the vehicle design, wherein the scale ratio is a ratio between a predetermined dimension of the evaluator and a predetermined dimension of a member of a target population; a computer system for digitally creating a virtual environment having a virtual human immersed within the virtual environment, wherein the virtual environment includes the vehicle design and the virtual human virtually represents a scaled evaluator; a motion capture system for sensing a motion of the evaluator and communicating the sensed motion of the evaluator to the computer system, so that the motion of the evaluator controls the motion of the virtual human in the virtual environment; and a virtual reality display mechanism operatively communicating with the computer system, for providing the evaluator a view of the virtual environment while evaluating the vehicle design.