Ooooh… car BSOD vibes…
This should be great. People don’t even k ow how to drive with a completely clear windshield, and don’t even get me started on the likelihood of AR ads superimposed over your view in “unintrusive areas”
The ads are a concern, but it would be neat to have your nav overlayed on the road. I imagine manufacturers removing instrument clusters and putting all the relevant information on the windshield in the next evolution of Tesla’s dumb idea to put everything on the infotainment.
There totally will be driverless taxi with obnoxious and unmutable ads, just like with gas pumps. You will be able to watch ads on YouTube and Netflix while your car drives you to the next location of a realized dystopian nightmare.
ADS?!?
Oh FUCK no.
Ffs it’s a projector. Anyone could do this now.
HUDs in cars is already a thing! A lot of newer vehicles have it, at least in the higher trims
HUDs in cars have been a thing since the late 80s, not the same thing as an whole windshield display for AR.
Awesome it has motion controls too so when you scratch your nose or wave a fly away, you’ll be able to enjoy accidentally calling random people, turning the radio volume way up, or maybe even putting on the e-brake! All without having to look away from the “road” (which you can’t see due to a sudden pop-up ad featuring the return of dancing Bonzai buddies!)
This gave me a good laugh.
Hopefully they take the obvious approach of using a trigger button or trigger gesture before it reacts, similar to phone/home voice assistants.
But can it run Doom while I drive over the kids in the school zone? 🤔
Those were clearly imps.
Ah, bonus points 👍
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Car infotainment systems are getting ever bigger, but a startup’s new prototype takes things further than even something like Ford’s pillar-to-pillar touchscreen — by turning your windshield into a full-color 3D heads-up display.
Distance Technologies, established by the co-founders of enterprise headset maker Varjo, showed off its design last week at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California.
CEO Urho Konttori was slightly cagey about the precise mechanics in an interview with my colleague Sean Hollister, but overall, the effect is a semi-transparent 3D display that covers the driver’s half of a normal-sized windshield.
Vehicle makers can integrate voice and gesture controls, and the prototype is hooked up to an Ultraleap hand tracker, so you can do things like hit a notification to accept a phone call without looking away from the road.
The full-color projection can display videos, which means features that are currently relegated to cars’ infotainment screens — like the feed from a rear-facing camera — could sit on one side of the windshield instead.
I have a slightly unusual vision situation — one of my eyes is a little nearsighted, and I don’t wear glasses — and while this rarely causes problems in real-life driving or normal AR headsets, it could account for parts of my experience.
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