Virtual Cable car windshield display navigation system
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[Digital Trends]
A new type of heads-up display engine provides 3D GPS navigation directions on your windshield that look as though they’re part of the real world.
A new type augmented reality system, which just won the top prize at the European Satellite Navigation Competition in Munich, Germany, promises to turn the entire world into a giant GPS navigation display.
Created by a company called Making Virtual Solid (MVS – California), the breakthrough heads-up display (HUD) system projects images from your car’s GPS onto the windshield to create an augmented reality navigation system that can be used by anyone easily. Rather than appearing like a flat map projected on the windshield, MVS’ technology displays a single “Virtual Cable,” which is made to appear like a physical line in the sky, outside the car, that shows the path to your chosen destination. …
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