GM Wants to Bring AR to a Automobile Windshield Near You
March 18, 2010 · Print This Article
Filed under: Vehicle Tech
Augmented reality has primarily been used to locate nearby restaurants, insert 3-D baddies into video games, and offer glorified advertisements. General Motors, however, is trying to put the technology to good use, and integrate it into the windshields of future vehicles. Under the generic title “enhanced vision system,” the prototype uses sensors, GPS, and video cameras to overlay useful information in a heads-up display (HUD), and thus aims to curb distracted driving.
GM envisions transparent phosphors that are able to highlight lanes in fog, and can pinpoint destinations, not on a map, but in the driver’s field of vision. The system could also be used to alert drivers to passing vehicles, or to animals and children in the street ahead. Sadly, GM doesn’t anticipate the technology to make its way into a commercially available car until at least 2016. We’re just hoping some other company takes that as a challenge, and pushes this technology to its limits. [From: New York Times]
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