Navdy’s Heads-Up Display for your car starts shipping for $799

Re:Navdy’s Heads-Up Display for your car starts shipping for... by upofadown on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:43PM (#12789408)

>... put it on a screen that is, in theory, less distracting.

A heads up display isn't less distracting. If anything it is more distracting since it is more in your field of view.

The value of a heads up display is that you don't have to move your visual focus as much as with something in the dash. Better heads up systems than this one make it so you don't have to change your distance focus, everything is at infinity focus.

A heads up display still requires your attention. The improvement is in a reduction of the dead time while switching between it and your surroundings.

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Re:Navdy’s Heads-Up Display for your car starts shipping for... by Heyokamerican on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:55PM (#12789515)

I believe the front element is curved--i.e. it's a lens--and the system puts focus a couple of feet forward of the windshield.

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Re:Navdy’s Heads-Up Display for your car starts shipping for... by coredog64 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:03PM (#12789596)

A proper HUD uses collimation to move the perceived focus point out to infinity.

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Re:Navdy’s Heads-Up Display for your car starts shipping for... by agumonkey on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:13PM (#12790174)

So there's a very tiny display in the base ?

ps: oh .. I just clicked, it's probably the same thing as the Google Glass HUD.

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