Stretching on the concept of head-up displays (HUDs), which are steadily making way into automobiles, Light Blue Optics, with the same base has devised a new technique called holographic projection. The holographic projection allows the HUD to be created on a car’s wing mirror or the rearview mirror, overlying thereon information on a normal view of the road.
Impressively smaller than the current in-car HUD systems, this new prototype from Light Blue Optics displays the car speed and/or distance between vehicles in real time. This utterly small display has been made possible by the use of constructive and destructive interface of light which the prototype deploys to create holographic images on small surfaces.
The holographic projection would at to road safety, by allowing the drivers to concentrate on the road, providing them with the useful information in front of them. Light Blue Optics displayed the holographic projection concept at the Society for Information Display’s Vehicles and Photons 2009 symposium, organized in Dearborn, Michigan.
Via: TechnologyReview
