Oki shows off prototype LED-based HUD, coming soon to a jalopy near you
By Darren Murph 
posted November 27th 2009 8:28PM
posted November 27th 2009 8:28PM
posted November 27th 2009 8:28PM
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This looks very promising. I know the technology has been around for a while.. but at a lower price?
Just let me know when i can retrofit it on to my own car!
@rew1red In non-LED format (which I can't tell the difference) since 1997 on my Corvette. Once you go HUD, you don't go back.
LED should be smaller and lower power draw, w/ would be awesome for a wireless HUD for my motorcycle helmet!
pretty cool
Whoa thats crazy cool.
Pretty soon, you won't be able to see the road through all the ads.
@User Formerly Known as Dave
Totally saw that in WiReD.
@mwagner26 I did not.
@User Formerly Known as Dave I distinctly remember a user named Dave commenting on the Wired article.
@Cheesus Crust Was it me? If it was, then whoops. I don't recall anything about it. I do have a history, though. Feel free to flip through it. Let me know when you conclude your investigation.
Yaay! Technology!
Would be so awesome if when the vehicle is put in neutral the HUD defaults to a Tron light cycle game, so I can pass the time at red lights.
If my experience driving today is any indication of things to come, people need LESS distraction while in a car - not more. I'd be willing to sacrifice access to such awesome tech if it meant not being killed by someone who can't handle using it.
The Lawyers will never allow them to place this directly in the line of sight.
All auto HUDs to date have been WAY below (and often off to the side) the direct view.
@(Unverified) except in a fighter jet....
no more heart-in-throat moments when i pass by a cop only to look down and realize i'm going 15+ over the speed limit?
If they could add night vision to the whole windshield inside view, that would be epic! ;-)
F*** F*** F*** F*** F***
This is exactly the type of s*** I wanted to do when I finished from college. I am not even in college yet, but damn. Working so hard to get into MIT/Stanford/etc to major in Mechanical and Comp Engineering just so I could do this!
@KillaChaos
sure is underaged and B&nd 4chan user in here.
@(Unverified)
sure is not 4chan in here
@KillaChaos looks like someone beat you to it
@KillaChaos You're the ambitious type, eh?
@KillaChaos
I think this is more optics and material engineering rather than mechanical engineering, mechanical engineers can install it when it's ready :)
thats plain kickass
Looks Pretty cool.
Please make a left, sponsored by McDonald's, in 100 ft.
A text message shows up on the HUD showing this:
"I think we should go our separate ways. Its not you, its me."
CRASH.
Y U DO?
I want to mod my 04 mustang with one of these, something that looks similar to the haloODST heads up display, that highlights any accidents (and cops) glowing red :D
at least for use in cars, it seems like the windshield would be the pricey factor. with my Corvette (which had a HUD), windshield replacements were 2-5x more than a "normal" car because the windshield had to have some sort of special formulation for the HUD to be reflected off of it.
@(Unverified)
Chevy screwed things up on the Vette HUDs then because I've owned 3 Pontiac Bonnevilles with HUD and repalced two of the windshields on them at now extra cost.
HUDs are the one of the best features ever in a modern automobile and not distracting at all. You get used to it quickly and can dim/brighten accordingly, or just turn it all the way off (at least in the Pontiacs I've owned). It's gotten to the point that I can't stand driving my wife's car, rentals or any other vehicle without it. Looking down to check your speed seems almost dangerous to me now.
God I wish they had put a HUD in the G8.....sigh.
@(Unverified) you're mainly comparing OEM vs aftermarket prices, aftermarket is always cheaper, and the HUD works w/o it, you just have to max the brightness and it looks the same.
This is what we want !! hope we can get this soon.
Cool tech. Horrible font and color.
@Finalcutnerd Yeah, a bit too light IMO. You can see how part of it just fades out against the light blue sky.
@Finalcutnerd yeah, those serif fonts just get on my nerves. HINT HINT ENGADGET
WTF I had this idea years ago but didn't know what to do with it
You had a way to bond dissimilar materials and so make high-brightness QVGA LED displays? clever.
The Lexus HS 250 has this feature and it's quite nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st5D1Pz-J-E
nice
cool
OVERKILL
Sweet
looks great. i'd lower it a lil.
@artist Its the correct height (and slightly adjustable up or down) and color on the Corvette since 1997 IMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-05OwfKALM
Why it never went mainstream, I can't understand. Its way cheaper than a sunroof.
@artist
cool. thanks for your reply. very informative
Meh, a projector phone and some cling wrap has this licked...
Actually I wouldn't put that too far off. I am sure some modder will figure out how to do something similar sooner or later and post a DIY on YouTube.
@Chaosdivine I find your avatar disturbing and thus I haven't read your comment, but I still need to tell you that your avatar is disturbing... very, very disturbing...
* drools *
@loocas You like LAMPS too do ya? ;) Come back and check it out after you've consumed a few wobbily pops...you're perspective will suddenly change...
@loocas
What is so disturbing about a lamp?
honestly, I saw concepts of this when I was in 1st grade.. and that was 19 years ago.