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This Ford sculptor has carved cars out of clay for 40 years. AI and VR just cut his work time in half
John “Rex” Allen is 68, wears cowboy boots, a black baseball cap, and he’s spent four decades building life-size cars out of clay. These days he builds inside a virtual-reality headset, too.
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John “Rex” Allen is 68, wears cowboy boots, a black baseball cap, and he’s spent four decades building life-size cars out of clay. These days he builds inside a virtual-reality headset, too. He does his work upstairs at Ford Motor Company’s gleaming new headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, where the bird sounds in the yard aren’t even real.
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