TORSLANDA, Sweden -- Volvo has given a small group of its engineers "superpowers" that it believes its rivals currently cannot match.
The roughly 15 car developers based at Volvo’s global headquarters here near Gothenburg have the ability to see through walls of steel and turn an engine upside down with one finger.
This is possible because Volvo says it is the first automaker to test Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality goggles as a tool, one that could dramatically speed up car development, which would help the automaker meet its goal of reducing the time it takes to develop a new model to 20 months by 2020 from 30 months now.