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Originally Posted by Romo
My weekend test drive with the M4 included the HUD, and it was awesome !!
Speed, speedlimit and in M mode also RPM visible, great.
One point of criticism if I may;
I would like the focus of the HUD further away. While driving and looking far in front of the car, you,ll have to refocus to see the HUD clearly.
For safety reasons it would be advisable to make the HUD (if possible) and it`s focus speed dependable.
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Don't worry. Auto HUD focus will come when they put cabin/driver facing cameras in the cars. Eyeball tracking technology is progressing towards this and is needed to detect driver attentiveness. Also, eyeball tracking is used in VR and AR headsets.
So imagine the future where the whole dash, or driver info ( why limit HUD to only 12" ) is floating and where ever you look as long as you look through glass. There are technologies that exist that can do this which are not visible to the passengers. I think the technologies need to be further developed and the price point must drop before something like that can be commercialized.
Anyway, depending on the design, the information can be floating or fixed, but it is based off of your head and eyeball positions. It will overlay information to create an augmented reality for you. Similar to the concept of google glass, but for your car.