A 3D car dashboard that can be seen without glasses is coming in 2022 — see how it works
- Continental, a German auto manufacturing company, partnered with Silicon Valley-based display technology startup Leia to create a 3D car dashboard that can be seen without wearing specialized glasses.
- Continental claims the dashboard allows drivers to absorb information in a more rapid, and therefore safe and non-distracting, manner.
- The 3D dashboard can relay pertinent information, such as projections of GPS directions and a 360-degree parking assist view.
- While the car is in an autonomous driving mode, drivers can do otherwise unthinkable actions while driving: video chat, watch movies, and play video games, to name a few examples.
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Continental, a German manufacturing company, partnered with Silicon Valley-based display technology startup Leia to create an innovative 3D dashboard for cars that can be seen without wearing specialized glasses.
The dashboard provides the driver with pertinent information — such as a projection of GPS directions — to ease the driving experience while increasing the driver's safety and speed of information absorbent, according to Continental.
Its maker claims the 3D displays won't be distracting to the driver because unlike 3D movies, the displays can't pop out and travel limitlessly around the car.
"We work with the graphic depth to the rear and allow all 3D-objects a maximum of five centimeters out of the picture," product manager of display solutions at Continental Kai Hohmann said in a statement. "This is much more relaxed for the eye and will ensure the driver does not become distracted."
The dashboard's creation follows an uptick in autonomous driving trends that allow drivers to take their complete focus off of the roads at all times. In the future, while a car is in its autonomous driving mode, the display will be able to offer activities that drivers otherwise can't safely partake in, such as video chatting, gaming, internet and social media browsing, and watching television.
Read the original article on Business InsiderThis isn't the only display Continental is currently working on.
Several objects will be 3D projected in the GV80's instrument cluster, such as warning signs and pointers.
However, unlike the dashboard, the GV80's instrument cluster will rely on a camera inside the car to trace the driver's gaze.
The 3D display system will begin production by 2022, but a slightly tweaked iteration of it will be used in the HMC Genesis GV80's instrument cluster.
Continental also created a 4K screen that covers the entire length of the cockpit with displays that come and go depending on the car's current driving mode.
The dashboard offers glasses-free 3D viewing by using Leia's "Diffractive Lightfield Backlighting" light technology. This technology also allows the dashboard to be seen clearly even if light is being shown directly onto it.
A camera won't be needed to track head movements in order to display its 3D images, according to Continental.
There are several applications for the 3D dashboard. For example, it can project directions from a GPS or a 360-degree parking assist view.
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