MVS Virtual Cable(TM) Display
Typically in-car GPS navigation systems have been limited to showing instructions on a centrally mounted LCD display, and most modern systems also have voice navigation. Some car companies like BMW have started to display GPS navigation instructions on a heads-up display.
An American company called Making Virtual Solid LLC has another idea. It’s called a Virtual Cable(TM) display. It projects a 3D red virtual cable onto your field of vision, and to get to your destination all you have to do is follow the the cable. You will find some videos of how this looks like after the jump, but MVS LLC says in reality the cable is much more realistic – there’s just so much a two dimensional video can show you.
More information on the Virtual Cable(TM) is available by visiting MVS’s website. You can view three demonstration videos after the jump.
Video: MVS Virtual Cable – Highway
Video: MVS Virtual Cable – Highway Night
Video: MVS Virtual Cable – Intersection
January 13, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
bt it stil doesnt show any street names or major landmarks like a normal conventional GPS…bts its very easy to use..no need to concentrate on a small lcd for direction…..i stil prefere those GPS with headup display…even easier to use…
January 13, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
waah its like playing racing games la..
got direction at your windscreen
January 13, 2008 @ 6:48 pm
Nothing special about this feature as most of the motorist is fimiliar with the routes, the only thing is to pay for it unnecessarily. GPS is more for 4WD jungle trekking.
January 13, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
I read about this somewhere a few weeks back. Thing is, how are they going to produce the “images” on your windscreen?
BMW done it with their M5, lets see then, hopefully, it’ll be like what naikmotoje just said, playing racing games, what I’ve been hoping for for so long observing boring GPS unit screens.
January 13, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
This got to require the gps to be very accurate. My gps accurate to about 10m on average. Means on road next to each other it sometimes put u on the wrong path. I think it will be the same for this system also coz i c no way they can increase the accuracy without tinkering with the satelite themself.
January 13, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
I agree with w_lighter. When the junctions/turns are close to each other, a nav system might lead you into the wrong one.
January 13, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
GPS is nice, i like to have one in my car……
but sometimes can be very irritating, i remember the GPS in my friend’s Vios will remind the driver everytime exceeded the speed limit……
is it the same for every conventional GPS devices?
January 14, 2008 @ 12:47 am
the speed limit thing is probably MapKing on a Windows Mobile device. it can be disabled.
January 14, 2008 @ 1:19 am
mitlanevo: I’m using Mapking. The speed limit can be disabled or the limit can be raise. I put mine around 130 on highway.
January 14, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
I like the way it shows the intersection flow but I’m also wondering how distracting this red line is gonna be to the driver. BMW’s HUD navigation projects the normal GPS display at bottom middle of windscreen but voice prompting should be less distracting than a red line that moves all over the windscreen. Accuracy is still the most important… or we will have more incidents like in the west where the older folks drive into houses and shops because the navigation system “told” them to.
January 14, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
oic……
guys, thanks for the info!
January 14, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
The NFS Underground GPS never failed to send my car spinning when it changed direction suddenly near intersections. But of course I was always driving like a maniac. I hope this one doesn’t do that. (And we are not suppose to drive like a maniac anyway…).
January 15, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
maybe the color should change say from green to yellow to red as the car approaching junctions/traffic light/roundabout, etc.. this can be a good alert to the driver as well..
neat idea though!…