"Dazzling" Technology Three Advanced Head-Up Display Technologies

Let me ask you a question: When driving, what part of the car do you focus your eyes on the longest? The answer is not the steering wheel or the dashboard, but the windshield! Although the windshield is transparent and everyone's attention is focused on the road outside the glass, no one can deny that the line of sight must pass through the windshield.

Although the core function of the car windshield's large viewing area is to provide a wide and clear field of vision, over time, people always feel that they should do something interesting or meaningful on this "big screen", so the head-up display system (HUD) came into being. Using the principle of optical refraction, the information displayed on the instrument panel can be projected from the HUD device to the windshield, forming a very beautiful information display with a texture that feels like a science fiction movie. However, the madness of science in exploring and utilizing the potential of windshields has not stopped there...

The following are three groups of crazy scientists from three different places who have made the greatest efforts to explore the potential of windshields. The first is a group of people from Autoglass, who boldly expanded the original small HUD system, expanded the projection range to cover the entire windshield, and projected richer information, even integrating the GPS navigation system.

From the driver's perspective, it seems like he is sitting in the cockpit of a future fighter jet. In addition to being able to see the real scene outside the car, he can also find navigation prompts, music information played in the audio system, speed limit signs, vehicle speed, gear position and fuel level display at the bottom of the windshield. What's more technological is that this system even incorporates a pedestrian detection system, which can actively mark the presence of pedestrians with arrows and display a warning subtitle of "cyclist ahead" at the bottom of the screen. This is simply the function that an ideal driving tool should achieve!

If you are addicted to Weibo, text messages, and SNS, and you are always driving, then the following technology will definitely suit your taste. A small group of MIT people who are even crazier and do not know the truth are the creators of this idealized product. They also use HUD technology to project information on the windshield, but this time it seems to be a bit too much - they project the GPS map onto the windshield in the form of a 3D physical model, and even add SNS social networking functions!

With the help of 3D projection technology, the large map will fill the entire windshield, and even people with poor eyesight will not miss the small intersections, although it looks very scary and slightly affects the vision. But the wonderful thing is that this system called AIDA2.0 can also display the geographical location information of social networks, just like when we play NetEase Bafang or NetEase Weibo, we will leave the footprints (geographic location coordinates) of our posted status, isn’t it cool?

What's even more amazing is that this AIDA2.0 system is actually gesture-operated... Friends who use fruit machines should understand this better. Gesture operation is wonderful and can reduce distraction, although your attention has been distracted by such fancy things.

If the first two new and unique technologies are still too far away, then the remaining one is something we can really experience around us, because this technology has already been purchased. Pioneer of Japan has taken the lead in developing an embedded navigation system - AVIC-VH09CS. It has a 7-inch LCD screen, DVD player, USB and SD card slots, Bluetooth connection... Speaking of this, everyone thinks it is very ordinary, right? Don't worry, the good stuff is of course behind.

The core selling point of this device is the function called "augmented reality observation mode". It turns out that the navigation system is equipped with two wireless cameras embedded on the windshield, which transmit the real scene in front of the car to the navigation system in real time through data streaming. The two cameras can ensure that they have the same distance calculation ability as the human eye.

The navigation system will analyze and process the received image information, integrate it with the navigation interface, form a superimposed image, use the highlight information to highlight the road lanes, judge the roadside store information, and even depict the 3D navigation route and highlight the abnormal vehicles ahead with logos to avoid accidents caused by the driver's inattention. Although the image looks a bit cartoony, it is truly like the scene in a racing game and has the ability to calculate in real time.

Of course, the price of this system is not cheap, $3,700 is already equivalent to the price of an entry-level car. For such a super cool system, hardcore technology enthusiasts will definitely not miss it, right?