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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Friday December 28, 2007 - 21 Ford's Virtual Reality Cave is helping the company's North American product engineers evaluate design before production Ford's Virtual Reality Cave, or VRC, is helping the company's North American product engineers evaluate design before production. The lab reduces the need to build physical prototypes and trims thousands of dollars and several months from the product development process. Located in the Product Visualization Center at the company's Product Development Center in Dearborn, the digital lab, a darkened room about the size of an office, is modeled after a nearly identical Ford of Europe German facility. With two such facilities, crossAtlantic collaboration is possible for the development of global vehicle platforms. "Having VRCs on both sides of the Atlantic supports the Global Product Development System and Way Forward Continued on Page 42