Tag Archives: heads up display
Form’s Swim Goggles are the first great wearable for swimmers
What you're looking at sells why you'd ever want a pair of Form's new Swim Goggles more than any spec sheet or press release. Its transparent display sits over one of your eyes, serving up real-time stats about how well you're swimming, including you...
Navdy Augmented Driving Device Ships: Looks Awesome but Expensive
Back in the summer of 2014, I talked a bit about Navdy and how I wanted one of the slick HUDs for my car. Now, I really wish i had pre-ordered back in 2014 because the price went way up. Back then, you could pre-order a Navdy for $299 and the company expected to sell the device for $499. That was expensive, but within reason considering the price of some of the better aftermarket GPS devices out there.
Now that the Navdy device is shipping it is much more expensive than the company said back in 2014. The device will sell for $799, $300 more than we expected. You can finance the device for $71 monthly for 12 months to help soften the blow, but it’s still pricy.
For that big price, you get a HUD navigation device that links up with your smartphone and gives you notifications for calls and other messages right next to the GPS directions. The directions are projected on the windshield of your car so you don’t have to look away while driving. The cool bit is that you don’t need to dock your phone (so it seems anyway) because Navdy has its own GPS chip and local storage for Google Maps data. It also has a connection with your car to show data about your ride like speed, RPM, and other info. Navdy works with iOS 9 and 10 devices or Android 4.1 or higher.
HUDWAY Glass Equips Any Car with a Heads-Up Display
You no longer have to buy a luxury car in order to have a dash mounted head-up display. HUDWAY Glass is an affordable smartphone accessory that fills up that gap.
The dashboard of modern cars has already been redesigned and digitized in order to provide more useful information while driving, but taking your eyes off the road just for a split second could have serious consequences. A heads-up display, on the other hand, enables drivers to see important details regarding their ride, all without having to lower the eyes.
Instead of projecting info straight to the windshield, like some other head-up displays do, HUDWAY Glass has its own transparent surface on which the ride-related details are shown.
The companion app, which is available for both iOS and Android, displays such details as current, average, and maximum speed, acceleration, navigation details (direction and distance until the next turn), and 3D road view. Considering the things people do nowadays while driving, it would hurt if the app also displayed text messages, or even song lyrics for lip-syncing while driving. On a second thought, given the fake PSA the girls at Skit Box posted the other day on Facebook, it’s probably better (not to mention safer) to refrain from lip-syncing while behind the wheel.
Here is the description of this HUD from the ones who made it:
“Hi, we’re HUDWAY. We made a universal vehicle accessory that turns your smartphone into a Head-Up Display (HUD) bringing comfort and safety to drivers all over the world. We did it because we’re tired of waiting for others. Because we believe that automotive HUDs are safer than an instrument-panel display or a smartphone. And because other solutions are either very expensive, or stuck in the midst of a long and complicated development process. This is the accessory we want, and we think you’ll like it.
It’s simple and affordable. Discover a new way of using your phone while driving and not being distracted. Now we need your support to make HUDWAY Glass a reality.”
HUDWAY Glass is currently featured on Kickstarter, where pledges have already surpassed the $100,000 funding goal. Early birds could get the HUD by pledging $34 or $39, but unfortunately, all those spots have already been taken. Regular backers can still secure a HUDWAY Glass for themselves by pledging $49 or more. Deliveries should start in March 2016, assuming that nothing goes wrong with the crowdfunding campaign. Also, since the funding goal was achieved in just 5 days and there still are 24 days to go until the campaign ends, it would hurt for the developers to add some stretch goals. Remember that thing I said earlier about lip-syncing and driving?
This particular HUD could make driving faster, especially for the ones who have not spent much time behind the wheel. Until driverless vehicles become the norm, it’s our responsibility to make sure we’re not distracted during the ride.
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[via Geeky Gadgets]
Navdy HUD for Cars Helps Keep Eyes on the Road
I’ve long wanted to have a slick heads-up display in my car to show me things like speed, RPM, and direction. That would be much cooler than having my iPhone attached to the windshield with a RAM mount. I’d also really like it if the device would stay put so when I am driving a car on the racetrack so I could use it to see how fast I was going and the RPMs of the car without looking down.
Navdy might be exactly what I need. It is a small device that links to Android or iOS smartphones via Bluetooth 4.0 and gives you a HUD to look at. It will show GPS directions from Google Maps, and connects to your vehicle’s OBD II port to get speed, RPMs and other data about the car. Navdy can also display information from your smartphone, including text messages, and allow you to screen and answer phone calls.
It uses a projector to throw an image on a 5-inch screen that appears to float 6-feet in front of the driver, and is controlled using simple gestures, so you don’t have to reach in your pocket to grab your phone.
For the next month, the pre-order price of Navdy is $299(USD) – with the normal price being $499. Shipping is set to start in 2015. I think I want one of these.
MIT Researchers invent next generation HUD
A group of researchers at MIT have announced the invention of a transparent display that could usher in the next generation of heads up displays. The scientists say that the HUD they have developed...
Revision Military Helmets Protect from 9 mm Rounds and Offer HUD
A company called Revision that made its name producing ballistic eyewear for the military and law enforcement personnel as shown off its next-generation modular helmet system for soldiers. The...
Skully P1 Motorcycle Helmet Features a Rearview Camera and More
A very interesting new helmet has turned up from a company called Skully Helmets. The helmet is called the Skully P1 and it has a built-in rearview camera and heads up display. The heads up display...
Recon Jet AR Headset: Google Glass Sport
Google Glass made the world at large aware of the existence and potential of augmented reality headsets and heads-up displays. Surely we’ll see more and more similar devices appear. In fact, one such device could launch before Glass. It’s called the Recon Jet, a nerdy accessory for jocks.
Recon Instruments, the company behind the Recon Jet, clearly designed the headset to augment sports and other outdoor-related activities. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and all the other sensors and connectivity technology that Glass has. But instead of projecting its monitor through a prism, the Recon Jet’s display is directly situated at the front of the device. This makes it more visible than the resulting transparent display on the Glass. Recon Instruments placed the Recon Jet’s display below the user’s right eye because according to the company’s research it was the least obtrusive location.
Here’s Mashable’s interview with a spokesman from Recon Instruments:
Without knowing the final specs of both devices, it’s hard to say if the Glass can also do everything that the Recon Jet can. It’s also equally important that Recon Instruments get the support of app developers. One thing’s clear: there’s never been a better time to make prescription contact lenses. Except for the time when there weren’t any prescription contacts.
[Recon Instruments via Mashable via Reddit]
Recon Instruments reveals Recon Jet, a sports HUD so bright it needs shades (video)
We know Glass comes with some snap-on shades, which is no doubt great when casually vlogging in the sun. If you're heading down a mountain, though, you're going to need something a little more like Recon Jet. You may know Recon Instruments from its line of technolicious HUD ski goggles, but Jet sees the firm leap into more casual (yet no less useful) eyewear. Inside you'll find a dual-core processor, WiFi, GPS, Ant+, Bluetooth and an HD camera, plus all the sensors you could want (altimeter, thermometer, accelerometer etc). Recon Jet comes with its own open platform (which typically has been based on Android), and will have some existing native apps (video streaming, Facebook integration, etc.) on display at Google I/O this week. Comparison with Mountain View's own product will be inevitable, but we're guessing that Recon hopes you'll leave Glass on your desk, while popping Jet on for the weekend.
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