Saturday, August 25, 2007
MSFT Developing Heads Up Display for Cars
Microsoft may be ready to hook up with the auto manufacturers to provide heads up access to all the gadgets you current are fooling with while barreling down the highway drinking your SBUX.If you want to read the details here is the patent application.
If you don't I think I have summarized the salient points:
- Moves all the information currently displayed on navigation screens, car stereos, cell phones, and instruments onto the windshield.
- The patent cites safety concerns, where people are constantly taking their eyes off the road to look at this or that screen.
- The heads-up display would be adaptive, showing information based on user and vehicle.
- Different user input methods, such as tracking head and eye movements, along with the more mundane button and voice command inputs.
- The diagrams submitted with the patent show some good ideas, such as vehicle, music, environment, and navigation information displayed in small boxes around the edges of the windshield.
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When it blinds you from blue screening, you will wreck into a tree.
Fortunatly, it will have slowed your car down so much, you only get a small dent.
But then, your car won't start... Well it will start but then shuts down after a block, and you have to restart it again.
Fortunatly, it will have slowed your car down so much, you only get a small dent.
But then, your car won't start... Well it will start but then shuts down after a block, and you have to restart it again.
Actually a real concern would be that you might not see a pedestrian on the left side, if as shown in the patent drawing, there is a side-bar.
Still all in all it is interesting, but needs some work on it.
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Still all in all it is interesting, but needs some work on it.
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