The doors to the virtual dealership fly open, revealing the general manager, who introduces a brief commercial about Aura.
High Technology Solutions Inc. is expected to announce Monday that its Virtual Dealership software, intended to help dealers sell more bug deflectors, ski racks, head lamps and running boards, will soon be found in Ford Motor dealers nationwide.
Players will be able to zip around on Ducati Supersport motorcycles and visit a virtual Lamborghini dealership.
For example, Scott Brandt, owner of Motoexotica.com, a St. Louis-based virtual car dealership, lists his phone number on all his auctions and also will allow any buyer to have a car inspected even after an auction has closed.
It's been missing virtual car dealerships.
Buyers custom-designed their vehicles in a virtual reality studio at a dealership, then waited four to six months for delivery from Germany.
"At one point, if a guy had a $30,000 car, he was thought of as doing pretty well," says Al Gary, owner of Virtual Auto in Fort Lee, N.J., a dealership that caters to celebrity musicians.
Volvo chose MyTown, said Emily Garvey, brand manager at Media Contacts, the digital media agency for Volvo, because "it is a location-based game, where people check into a location such as a garage or auto dealership and opt to receive a virtual sedan, a Volvo steering wheel, tire or Volvo iron mark — its logo".
Virtual showrooms and AR demonstrations are now standard fare for automakers at big auto shows, and even in dealership settings sometimes with specialized hardware.
The agency has applied that virtual water cooler argument to a handful of other Facebook cases, including that of a Chicago-area car dealership worker who was let go after criticizing his employer.
A Packard dealership fit naturally.
