Last week, BMW revealed data on their next generation Head-Up Display. Starting time released in 2004, the Caput-Up Brandish from BMW was the first arrangement to use a color projector which provided driving-related data directly in the driver's line of sight. The side by side generation Head-Up brandish arrived in 2011 and featured this time fifty-fifty more full-color graphics, a meaning improvement over the kickoff generation.

The next generation Caput-Upwardly Display acquires a and then-called "contact analogue" functionality, widely known to others as Augmented Reality.

BMW says that "this is a technique whereby virtual "markings" are superimposed on real objects in the external environment, so that navigation information or information from the commuter help systems can be displayed at exactly the right points on the driver's view of the road scene. Navigation instructions can be composite into the route, and vehicles or prophylactic-relevant objects can be highlighted or marked in context."

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BMW also says the contact analogue displays are a special form of augmented reality. The displayed data is integrated into the external environment in the right perspective and at the bodily point or points in the scene to which it relates, so that effectively the data appears to be "attached" to the external objects.

Some of the advantages of contact analog displays are the power to display data right in the driver'south directly line of sigh, with the aforementioned information overlaid on the objects. The driver continues to remain focused and distractions are avoided.

To showcase these new capabilities, BMW releases a demo video: